- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- May 24, 1940
- Died
- Jan 28, 1996 (aged 55)
- Place of birth
- Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Joseph Brodsky
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.
