WASHINGTON -- Elizabeth Frank has devoted much of her life to the study of art but had a passionate feeling for the poet Louise Bogan, the subject of her Pulitzer prize-winning biography, Frank's editor said Thursday.
Born in 1945 in Los Angeles, Frank attended Bennington College and did her graduate work at the University of California-Berkeley.
She is married to painter Howard Buchwald.
She also has been an English professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
In 1983, Frank, who has contributed over the years to periodicals such as The Nation, Art News and Art in America, also has published a biography of Jackson Pollock.
'Liz worked on 'Louise Bogan' for about 10 years,' Alice Quinn, Frank's editor at Alfred A. Knopf Inc. said. 'She had a passionate feeling for the poet.'
Frank could not immediately be reached for comment.
Bogan was born 1897 in Livermore Falls, Maine, but was reared in various parts of New England, her family moving from one mill town after another then settling down in Boston when she was in her teens.
She was a poet about whom W.H. Auden said 'She was able to wrest beauty and joy out of dark places.' Auden also decribed her as 'the best critic in America.'
For 38 years, Bogan covered the poetry scene for the New Yorker magazine and was married for some years to poet Raymond Holden, who also was for a time managing editor at the magazine.
She died alone in her apartment in New York at age of 72 of a coronary occlusion.
Bogan's most recognized collection of poetry was 'The Blue Estuaries,' published in 1968.
