Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive who didn't become a poet until much later in life: > Stevens was financially independent as an insurance executive e

Wallace Stevens was an insurance executive who didn't become a poet until much later in life: > Stevens was financially independent as an insurance executive earning by the mid-1930s "$20,000 a year, equivalent to about $350,000 today (2016). > By late February of 1947 with Stevens approaching 67 years of age, it became apparent that Stevens had completed the most productive ten years of his life in writing poetry.