Lisel Mueller

Lisel Mueller (born Elisabeth Neumann, February 8, 1924 – February 21, 2020) was a German-born American poet, translator and academic teacher. She worked as a literary critic and taught at the University of Chicago, Elmhurst College and Goddard College. She began writing poetry in the 1950s and published her first collection in 1965, after years of self-study. 

She received awards including the National Book Award in 1981 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1997, as the only German-born poet awarded that prize.

Mueller died on February 21, 2020 of pneumonia-related problems at a retirement center in Chicago at the age of 96.

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America
References

Other websites
 "Poems by Lisel Mueller" plagiarist.com
 Martha Minow: "Reading the Brothers Grimm to Jenny" in Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion, and American Law, Cornell University Press, 2016
 "Another Version" and "Scenic Route"
 "Hope" writersalmanac.org
 "Monet Refuses the Operation"  civicreflection.org
 "Things" poetryfoundation.org

Category:Pulitzer Prize winners
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Category:German poets
Category:American poets
Category:University of Chicago faculty
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Category:German translators
Category:Writers from Hamburg
Category:Writers from Chicago