Ruth Stone receives the 2002 National Book Award for poetry in New York on Nov. 20, 2002. Stone has died in Vermont. She was 96. Stone's daughter Phoebe Stone says her mother died of natural causes at her home on Nov. 19, 2011. She was surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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