Category : Stephen Spender

**Stephen Spender**
	English poet and man of letters
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Name in native language	Stephen Spender ;
Date of birth	28 February 1909 ; Kensington ; Stephen Harold Spender
Date of death	16 July 1995 ; London
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom ; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, –1927) ;
Educated at	University College, Oxford ; Gresham's School ; Blundell's School ; Hall School ; University College School ; lycee Georges-Clemenceau ;
Occupation	poet ; writer ; essayist ; university teacher ; journalist ; literary critic ; translator ;
Employer	University College London ; University of Cincinnati ; National Fire Service (1941–1944) ;
Member of	German Academy for Language and Literature ; Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts ; American Academy of Arts and Sciences ;
Position held	Booker Prize judge (1969) ;
Father	Harold Spender ;
Mother	Violet Hilda Schuster ;
Sibling	Humphrey Spender ; Michael Spender ; Christine Spender ;
Child	Matthew Spender ; Elizabeth Spender ;
Spouse	Natasha Spender (1941–1995) ; Inez Maria Pearn (1936–) ;
Award received	Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1962) ; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (1971) ; Knight Bachelor (1983) ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ; Companion of Literature (1977) ;
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English: Sir Stephen Harold Spender (28 February 1909 ? 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist and essayist whose work deals with the themes of social injustice and the class struggle. He was the seventeenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress, an appointment sometimes referred to as "the American Poet Laureate".