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1995
    
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Mark Levine, son of Philip Levine, accepts the Pulitzer Prize from George Rupp, Columbia University
President, on behalf of his father.
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PHILIP LEVINE was born in 1928 in Detroit and was formally educated
there, at the public schools and at Wayne University (now Wayne State
University). After a succession of industrial jobs, he left the city for
good and lived in various parts of the country before settling down in
Fresno, California, where he taught at the university until his recent
retirement. He has received many awards for his books of poems.
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