Author: Joseph Brodsky
Alternate names: Joseph BRODSKY; Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskiĭ; I. Brodskij; Joseph A. Brodsky; Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky; Iosif Brodskii; Iosif Brodskiĭ; Iosif Brodskiǐ; Joseph Brodsky / S. Volkov
Born: 24 May 1940
Died: 28 January 1996
Bio: Joseph (Iosif) Aleksandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.

Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity".
He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.