Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory, born on April 10, 1898, in Milwaukee, was a poet, translator, and literary critic. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he began to write poetry. In 1923, Gregory graduated and moved to New York City.

Gregory’s first book, Chelsea Rooming House (Covici-Friede, 1930), republished in 1932 as Rooming House, was a critical success. He went on to publish a total of eight volumes of poems, including Collected Poems (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964), winner of the 1965 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and Medusa in Gramercy Park (Macmillan, 1961) a National Book Award finalist. Additionally, Gregory was known for his translations of Catullus and Ovid.

In 1961, Gregory was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship. He was a professor of English at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1960, when he became professor emeritus.

Gregory died on March 11, 1892, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.