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LIFE Mary Oliver was born on September 10 , 1935 , in Maple Heights , Ohio . As a teenager, she lived for a brief while in the home of the deceased Edna St. Vincent Millay , where she helped Millay's sister Norma organize the papers Millay left behind. She briefly attended both the Ohio State University and Vassar College in the mid- 1950 s but did not receive a Degree . She has resided in Provincetown, Massachusetts , for more than forty years. Her late partner, artist Molly Malone Cook , served as Oliver's Literary Agent until her death in 2005. CAREER An intense and joyful observer of the natural world, Oliver is often compared to calls Oliver "a patroller of wetlands in the same way that Thoreau was an inspector of snowstorms" and "an indefatigable guide to the natural world." AWARDS Honors Oliver has received include the Lannan Literary Award for poetry (1998), the National Book Award For Poetry (1992) for her collection ''New and Selected Poems'', the Pulitzer Prize For Poetry (1984) for her collection ''American Primitive'', a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1980), and the Shelley Memorial Award (1969/70) of the Poetry Society of America. REFERENCES
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