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Born on Feb. 8/1911
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The year of 1916 Elizabeth Bishops father had died and her mother when mentally in insane and spent time in an asylum she started writing a storie about it was called The Village her mother later died at the asylum
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Lived with her grandparnets for 4 years
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She co founded "Con Spirito", a rebel liberary magizine at Vassar College.
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She earned a bacholers degree at vasser colleage
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Elizabeth is very Weathly and decides to go to Afica,Ireland,France,and Italy
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She moves to new york with her friend marinne moore and wins a poetry prize
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Marianne Morre suggested Bishop for the Houston Mifflin Prize for poetry which she won.
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Elizabeth was a consulant poet for the libray of congrass
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She set off to circumnaviagte South America by boat.
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Elizabeth won a pulitzer prize for poetry in 1956
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Later she is interduesed to Robert Lowell who liked her poems and became great friends
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She lectured in higher education for a number of years.
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Began a relationship with Alice Methfessel.
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Marinne moore an inpirsion and close friend to Elizabeth sadly died in Feb.4 1972
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Published her last book "Geograpy lll".
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She became the first women to receive the Neustadt International Prize for the Literature and the only American.
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She won the National Book Critics Award.
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in 1977 robret died elizabeth made a poem called our friendship
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She passed away in 1979 of a cerebral aneurysm.
