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Wallace Stevens was born here and became an internationally acclaimed poet. He attended Reading's High School for Boys, Harvard College, and New York University Law School, and he combined successful careers as an insurance company executive and award winning poet. In 1955, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens won both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award.
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Reading, Pennsylvania · United States
