Alfred Wellington Purdy OC OOnt (December 30 1918 April 21 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's unofficial poet laureate and a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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