Joseph Auslander

Joseph Auslander
Born	11 October 1897(1897-10-11) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	22 June 1965(1965-06-22) (aged 67) Coral Gables, Florida, USA
Occupation	Poet, anthologist, novelist
Nationality	United States
Spouse(s)	Audrey Wurdemann

"Open letter" to the Dutch, World War II poster

Joseph Auslander (11 October 1897, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 22 June 1965, Coral Gables, Florida) was an American poet, anthologist, translator of poems, and novelist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1937 and 1941.

Auslander was married to Audrey Wurdemann, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry; they lived at 3117 35th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Cathedral Heights neighborhood.

Their papers are held at the University of Miami.

Works

• More Than Bread: A Book of Poems
• Cyclops' Eye
• My Uncle Jan,: A Novel
• No Traveller Returns: A Book of Poems
• My Uncle Jan (by Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann)
• The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries
• The Islanders
• Cyclop's Eye
• Letters to Women
• Riders at the Gate: A Volume of Verse
• The Vigil of Venus
• Green World: A Book of Poems

References

• "Poet Laureate Timeline: 1953–1960". Library of Congress. 2008. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html. Retrieved 2008-12-19.