Aiken, Conrad Potter

1889 - Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Goergia on August 5, 1889.

1912 - Aiken graduated and married to Jessie McDonald.

1914 - He wrote his first collection of verse entitled Earth Triumphant that made him known as a poet.

1919 - Aiken's essays was collected in Skepticisms.

1921 - Aken moved from Massachusetts to England.

1927-1928 - Aiken was a tutor in English at Harvard.

1929 - He was divorced to his wife, Jessie McDonald.

1930 - Aiken won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Selected Poems and married to Clarissa M. Lorenz.

1931 - He produced his famous preludes, collectedin Preludes to Memnon.

1932 - Aiken attemted suicide.

1933 - He sailed to Boston.

1934 - He wrote his anthologised short story entitled Silent Snow, Secret Snow.

1936 - Aiken produced his famous preludes, Time in The Rock.

1937 - He married to Mary Hoover after divorcing Clarissa and returned to Rye.

1947 - He settled in Brewster, Massachusetts.

1950-1952 - He became a consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress.

1953 - Aiken published Collected Poems.

1973 - Died in Savannah, Georgia on August 17, 1973.