Joseph Brodsky
- Born
- 24 May 1940 (55 years old)
- Died
- 28 January 1996
- Place of birth
- Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Gender
- Male
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.
