John Berryman

Confessional poet who is remembered for his 1969 work, The Dream Songs, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. His other works include His Toy, His Dream, His Rest; The Dispossessed; and Delusions, Etc.

He was raised in Oklahoma and Florida by a banker father and a schoolteacher mother. When Berryman was twelve years old, his father committed suicide.

He suffered from alcoholism and had three turbulent marriages. He killed himself in 1972 by jumping from a Minneapolis bridge.

He wrote a biography of author Stephen Crane.