Sept. 3 (UPI) -- John Ashbery, one of the most renowned American poets of the 20th century, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in Hudson, N.Y. He was 90.
Ashbery, born in Rochester, N.Y. and educated at Harvard and Columbia Universities, was the forst poet to win what the New York Times described as the "triple crown of literary prizes" -- the Pulitzer, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.