HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) β The former Hartford home of famed poet Wallace Stevens has been sold and will be used as a private residence after a failed push by his fans to memorialize the building as a museum or writers’ residence.
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner penned many of his best known verses while working as a Hartford insurance executive.
The six-bedroom house sold on Sept. 10 for $430,000. The buyers are a married couple of doctors from Maryland who plan to keep the house as another residence for themselves.
Emotions over the sale have been mixed among Stevens fans in Hartford, where a group of investors had been trying to raise money to preserve the house as a memorial.
