Prize-winning poet Louis Simpson dies
Photo credit: Newsday / David L. Pokress | Louis Simpson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who used everyday language to chronicle suburban life, often focusing on people and places on Long Island, died Sept. 14, 2012 in his sleep at his Stony Brook home. He was 89. (April 11, 2001)
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Louis Simpson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who used everyday language to chronicle suburban life, often focusing on people and places on Long Island, died Friday in his sleep at his Stony Brook home.
A former comparative literature professor at Stony Brook University, Simpson, 89, had been diagnosed in 2005 with Alzheimer's disease, said his daughter, Anne Simpson, an English professor...
