Seamus Heaney (b.1939) was born in Northern Ireland and often writes about Ireland. Many people believe that he is one of the greatest living poets. His volumes of poetry include Death of a Naturalist, Wintering Out, North, Field Work, and Station Island. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995. Currently, he spends half of his year in the Irish Republic and half in the United States, where he teaches at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.