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Born
Born on Feb. 8/1911 -
Father died
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 -
Went to live with gradparents
Lived with her grandparnets for 4 years -
Co founded Con sprito
She co founded "Con Spirito", a rebel liberary magizine at Vassar College. -
Earns degree
She earned a bacholers degree at vasser colleage -
Becomes weathly
Elizabeth is very Weathly and decides to go to Afica,Ireland,France,and Italy -
moves
She moves to new york with her friend marinne moore and wins a poetry prize -
Won a prize
Marianne Morre suggested Bishop for the Houston Mifflin Prize for poetry which she won. -
Becomes poet for libray of congrass
Elizabeth was a consulant poet for the libray of congrass -
Sets off
She set off to circumnaviagte South America by boat. -
Wins pulitzer prize
Elizabeth won a pulitzer prize for poetry in 1956 -
Interdused to robert lowell
Later she is interduesed to Robert Lowell who liked her poems and became great friends -
Higher education
She lectured in higher education for a number of years. -
Begans Relationship
Began a relationship with Alice Methfessel. -
Friend dies
Marinne moore an inpirsion and close friend to Elizabeth sadly died in Feb.4 1972 -
Published last book
Published her last book "Geograpy lll". -
The First Women to recevie the neustadt prize
She became the first women to receive the Neustadt International Prize for the Literature and the only American. -
Wins award
She won the National Book Critics Award. -
Robert dies
in 1977 robret died elizabeth made a poem called our friendship -
Passed away
She passed away in 1979 of a cerebral aneurysm.
