Nemerov, Howard Stanley (1920–1991)

US poet, critic, and novelist. He published a poetry collection Guide to the Ruins (1950), a short-story collection A Commodity of Dreams (1959), and Collected Poems (1977), which won both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Later poetry includes Trying Conclusions (1991).

Other poetry collections include The Image of the Law (1947), Mirrors and Windows (1958), and The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968). His novels, which have also been commended, include The Melodramatists (1949), Federigo: Or, the Power of Love (1954), and The Homecoming Game (1957). He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1963 and 1964, as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1976, and as poet laureate of the United States 1988–90.