Paul Muldoon
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About
Irish, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for such collections as Moy Sand and Gravel, Meeting the British, Horse Latitudes, and Hopewell Haiku. He taught poetry at Oxford University from 1999-2004.
Before Fame
He was the child of a school teacher and a farmer and grew up as a Catholic in a Protestant area of Northern Ireland.
Trivia
He wrote opera libretti, as well as lyrics for his New Jersey-based rock band.
Family Life
He wed Anne-Marie Conway in 1973. Following his divorce, he married American novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz, with whom he had two children.
Associated With
He studied at Queen's University Belfast, where he made the acquaintance of fellow Irish poet Seamus Heaney.
