John Ashbery

Among the central figures of the New York School, John Ashbery (1927–2017) was born in Rochester, New York. His collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Viking, 1975), prompted by the Parmigianino painting, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in a single year, the only book to take all three. He won the 2008 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems. The Poetry Society of America awarded him the Robert Frost Medal in 1995. He published more than twenty volumes of poetry across six decades and worked for years as an art critic in Paris and New York.