Biography on Robert P.T. Coffin

ROBERT P.T. COFFIN-

Robert Peter Tristam Coffin also know as “The Poet”, was a poet , American writer and professor at Wells College. He was born on March 18, 1892 in Brunswick, Maine, USA , and was educated at Bowdoin in 1915, and graduated from Princeton University and Oxford University, with degrees. He regarded poetry as a public function that should speak well of life so that people would find inspiration. Coffin is best known as the author of more than three dozen works of literature, poetry and history, including the book ‘Strange Holiness’, which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1936. Robert P.T. Coffin on January 20,1995 at the age of 62 in Brunswick, Maine.