Aileen Ward

Aileen Ward (1919–2016) was an American professor of English literature renowned for her biography John Keats: The Making of a Poet (1963), which won the National Book Award in 1964 and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1963.New York Times obituary, Wikipedia She spent nine years researching the work, taught at institutions including Vassar and NYU, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1966 while working on a William Blake biography at the time of her death.