As per our current Database, Mona Van Duyn has been died on Dec 2, 2004 (age 83).
When Mona Van Duyn die, Mona Van Duyn was 83 years old.
| Popular As | Mona Van Duyn |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Age | 83 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | May 9, 1921 (Waterloo, IA) |
| Birthday | May 9 |
| Town/City | Waterloo, IA |
| Nationality | IA |
Mona Van Duyn’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Mona Van Duyn was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Former United States Poet Laureate who received the 1971 National Book Award for a poetry collection entitled To See, To Take. For another collection, Near Changes, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
She studied at Iowa State Teachers College and at the State University of Iowa.
Her late poetic works include Firefall and If It Be Not I, both published in 1994.
She grew up in Eldora, Iowa. She married Jarvis Thurston in 1943.
She was influenced by the work of author Virginia Woolf.
