Known For
Writing
Known Credits
4
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-05-24
Day of death
1996-01-28 (55 years old)
Place of Birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
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.