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Hyam Plutzik

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
Death: January 08, 1962 (50)
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States (complications of cancer)
Place of Burial: Springfield Gardens, Queens County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Rabbi Shmuel (Samuel) Plutzik and Shifra (Sadie) Plutzik
Husband of Tanya Plutzik
Father of Private; Private; Private and Private
Brother of Jacob David Plutzik; Emanuel Jonah (Manny) Plutzik; Naomi Reiss and Alice Kurland

Managed by: Yitzchok Kranczer
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About Hyam Plutzik

Hyam Plutzik was an American poet. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a professor of English at the University of Rochester.

In addition to five books published in his lifetime, Plutzik also published poems in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Sewanee Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry-New York, Hopkins Review, Epoch, Furioso, Prairie Schooner, the Yale Review, American Scholar, Antioch Review, New World Writing, The Nation, Saturday Review, Voices, Transatlantic Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Kenyon Review.

His awards included a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, a Ford Foundation Faculty Fellowship, a Poetry Awards Prize (later known as the Borestone Mountain Poetry Award), and two J.S. Cook Awards from Yale University.

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Hyam Plutzik's Timeline

1911
July 13, 1911
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States
1962
January 8, 1962
Age 50
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States