Coffin, Robert P. Tristram (1892-1955), poet, novelist, and essayist, earned an A.M. at Princeton after graduating from Bowdoin in 1915 and before going to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Two of his poems appeared in a selection of Princeton verse published by Princeton University Press in 1916 and thirteen in another Princeton anthology published by the Press in 1919. While teaching at Wells College and Bowdoin College, Coffin wrote thirty-seven books -- poems, novels, biographies, and essays. His Strange Holiness won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1935.
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