Audrey Wurdemann

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Audrey Wurdemann was an American poet, and the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry at the age of 24.

Life
She was the great-great-granddaughter of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She never attended grammar school, and entered high school at the age of 11.

Her first collection of poetry, 'The House of Silk,' was published when she was 16, sponsored by California poet George Sterling. She was a 1931 honors graduate of the University of Washington. After college she traveled through Asia.

She married American poet and novelist Joseph Auslander in 1932 and moved to New York City, where he taught at Columbia. They moved to Washington, DC when Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She subsequently collaborated with him on the novels My Uncle Jan and The Islanders.

They spent their last years living in Coral Gables, Florida.

Recognition
Bright Ambush (1934) won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Poetry

 * The House of Silk (1927)
 * Bright Ambush (1934)
 * The Seven Sins (1935)
 * Splendour in the Grass (1936)
 * Testament of Love (1938)

Fiction

 * My Uncle Jan (1945) with Joseph Auslander
 * The Islanders (1951) with Joseph Auslander