Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American Poet and Essayist(1940-1996)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky
• Known as: Joseph Brodsky
• Birth: May 24, 1940, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Death: January 28, 1996, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
• Language: Russian; English
• Who he was: Russian-American poet and essayist; Gorbunov and Gorchakov; Less Than One: Selected Essays; Nobel Prize in Literature (1987); Poet Laureate of the USA (1991)
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