After he fell ill during a track meet and was diagnosed with a heart murmur, he turned to poetry.  His story collections A Voyage to Pagany and The Knife of the Times preceded a novel trilogy that began with White Mule, which was told entirely from the viewpoint of his wife Flossie as a newborn baby.  He also wrote the introduction to Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems and the three-part love poem, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," before his posthumous Pulitzer for 1962's Pictures from Breughel.  FTP, name this one-time pediatrician and American poet famed for poems like "the Red Wheelbarrow" and Paterson.
After he fell ill during a track meet and was diagnosed with a heart murmur, he turned to poetry.  His story collections A Voyage to Pagany and The Knife of the Times preceded a novel trilogy that began with White Mule, which was told entirely from the viewpoint of his wife Flossie as a newborn baby.  He also wrote the introduction to Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems and the three-part love poem, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," before his posthumous Pulitzer for 1962's Pictures from Breughel.  FTP, name this one-time pediatrician and American poet famed for poems like "the Red Wheelbarrow" and Paterson.
After he fell ill during a track meet and was diagnosed with a heart murmur, he turned to poetry.  
William Carlos Williams