Sharon Olds is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet born on November 19, 1942 in California. She is known for her candidly sexual works such as Satan Says, The Father, and The Wellspring. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Stag's Leap.
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💰 Net worth: $1.5 Million (2024)
About
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who is known for Satan Says, The Father, The Wellspring, and other candidly sexual works. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Stag's Leap.
Before Fame
She attended Columbia University and Stanford University.
Trivia
She was influenced by poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
Family Life
Her mother apologized thirty-seven years after the fact for Olds' abuse-filled childhood.
Associated With
She was invited by Laura W. Bush to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., but she refused the invitation for political reasons.