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Rulitzer Prize Winner


Today in the Word, December 21, 1992

American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner Edwin Arlington Robinson used to spend his summers at the MacDowell Colony near Peterborough, New Hampshire. Arriving at breakfast one morning, he found the writer Nancy Byrd Turner and a new member of the colony already seated at his table. "This is Mr. Robinson," said Turner to her companion.

"Robinson! Not E. A. Robinson&md;not the Mr. Robinson?" gushed the other woman.

There followed a long, uncomfortable pause, then Robinson replied, "A Mr. Robinson."