RARE "5 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry" Hand Signed FDC COA For Sale

Up for sale RARE! "5 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Poetry" Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1970. Signers are;  Conrad Aiken, Mark Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Penn Warren, and Phyllis McGinley. 

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Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 –

August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and was U.S. Poet

Laureate from 1950-2. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels,

literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography.

 Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 –

December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar

and a professor of English at Columbia University for

nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and

thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers,

and Beat Generation writers

such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He was literary editor of The Nation,

in New York City (1924–1928),

and its film critic, 1935 to 1938. He

won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected

Poems 1922–1938. Amongst his other notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review, include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since

1890 (1939); critical studies, The Poetry of John Voice (1945) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949);

collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry (1931);

stories; and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln (1959).

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and

writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the

United States, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929

to 1938. For five years MacLeish was Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric

and Oratory at Harvard University. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders

of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946)

and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to

have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

 Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 –

February 22, 1978) was an American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style

of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the

positive aspects of suburban life. She won a Pulitzer prize in 1961. McGinley

enjoyed a wide readership in her lifetime, publishing her work in newspapers

and women's magazines such as the Ladies Home Journal,

as well as in literary periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Saturday Review and The

Atlantic. She also held nearly a dozen honorary degrees – "including one from the

stronghold of strictly masculine pride, Dartmouth College" (from the dust jacket of Sixpence in

Her Shoe (copy on its cover on June 18, 1965.