Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) went to the United States in 1972 as an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as poet laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992. He was the author of three books of poems in English, six books of poems in Russian, and three books of essays in English.
Ann Kjellberg is the literary executor of Joseph Brodsky.