Claudia Emerson
Age: 57
Summary: award-winning poet and professor at Virginia Commonwealth University who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Late Wife,
a collection of handwritten letters reflecting on her failed marriage
of 19 years and her blossoming relationship with her second husband
Kent Ippolito, and who was named the state's poet laureate, an honorary
two-year posts, by then-governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
Cause of Death: Cancer
Born: January 13, 1957
Died: December 4, 2014
Location: Richmond, Virginia
