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1911 – 1979Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)Died 6 October 1979, aged 68American poet Elizabeth Bishop, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a US Poet Laureate, died in Boston. Known for her precise, observational style, she published relatively little in her lifetime but is regarded as one of the twentieth century's finest poets. She died on 6 October 1979.