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Unfortunately I cannot reproduce lengthy excerpts from copyrighted material without permission. However, here is a summary of the key biographical details about Marianne Moore: Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit. She was born in 1887 in Missouri. Her father was an engineer and her mother helped found Bryn Mawr College. Moore attended Bryn Mawr, as well as commercial college. She taught at the Indian School of Carlisle in Pennsylvania for a few years early in her career. Moore was closely associated with the avant-garde art world in New York City in the 1920s. She became editor of the famous literary magazine The Dial in 1925. She won many major literary awards over her long career, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the National Institute of Arts and Letters. She was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1955. Moore passed away in 1972 in New York City. Over her lifetime she became one of the most important and influential Modernist writers, known for her poetry's precision of language and imagery.read less

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