Joseph Brodsky
Personal information
- Known for
- Writing
- Known credits
- 6
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- May 24, 1940
- Died
- January 28, 1996
- Place of birth
- Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Biography
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters.
