Quick Facts

• NAME: John Ashbery
• OCCUPATION: Poet
• BIRTH DATE: July 28, 1927 (Age: 85)
• EDUCATION: Harvard University, Columbia University
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Rochester, New York
• Full Name: John Lawrence Ashbery
• ZODIAC SIGN: Leo

Best Known For

Poet John Ashbery’s collections include The Double Dream of Spring, and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, for which he won a Pulitzer and a National Book Award.