Al Alvarez

Writer

Date of birth : 08/05/1929

Date of death : 09/23/2019

City of birth : London, England, UK

Poet, critic, and nonfiction writer Alfred Alvarez was born in London and educated at Oxford University. At age 28, Alvarez was the youngest person ever chosen by Princeton University to deliver the Christian Gauss lectures. He served as poetry critic and editor for The Observer from 1956 until 1966, where he was an early advocate of Sylvia Plath's poetry.