Franz Wright
Poetry
Franz Wright was an award-winning poet who published many collections of poetry before his death in 2015. His works include The Beforelife (2001), Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (2003), God’s Silence (2006), Earlier Poems (2007), Wheeling Motel (2009), Kindertotenwald (2011), and F (2013). He was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Pulitzer Prize. Wright was eulogized in The Los Angeles Times as a poet "who wrote with raw lyricism about inner demons, death, God and redemption"; The New York Times described him as a writer "whose work illuminated his passage from abiding despair to religious transcendence." He was the son of the poet James Wright.
