Is it true that both Ann Beattie and James Merrill received a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry?
James Merrill James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for "Divine Comedies" (1976). His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled "The Changing Light at Sandover" (published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980), which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. He also made a cameo in the 1992 film "Lorenzo's Oil" in a symposium scene where he played a questioning doctor, due to filmmakers wanting to emphasize the "everyman" storyline.
Warren Woessner Warren Woessner (born 1944), poet and lawyer, studied creative writing with James McConkey and A. R. Ammons at Cornell University. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1966 and co-founded "Abraxas Magazine" with poet James Bertolino in 1968. He was also a founder of WORT-FM and hosted its poetry program. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. His poetry has appeared in "Poetry", "Poetry Northwest", "The Nation", "Midwest Quarterly", "CutBank", "Poet Lore", and "5 A.M." Woessner's poetry and literary reviews have been published in "The New York Times Book Review", "American Book Review", "Rain Taxi", and "Midwest Review".