Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart Born Richard Ghormley Eberhart (1904-04-05)April 5, 1904 Austin, Minnesota, USA Died June 9, 2005(2005-06-09) (aged 101) Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Occupation Poet Nationality United States Alma mater University of Minnesota Dartmouth College Harvard University Notable awards National Book Award 1977 Pulitzer Prize 1966 Spouse Helen Butcher (m. 1941) Richard Ghormley Eberhart (April 5, 1904 – June 9, 2005) was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He is the grandfather of Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington.