Irish poet, playwright, and author William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) is regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet, was born in Sandymount in County Dublin. His father was a member of the Butler of Neigham (pronounce it Nyam) Gowran family, who were derived from The 8th Earl of Ormond's half-brother. He wed Susan Mary Pollexfen, a wealthy merchant family's daughter. Yeats joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as a result of his fascination with the occult and mysticism. Due to her background of revolutionary political involvement, Gonne might not make a good wife. Iseult Gonne, who was 21 years old at the time, was Maud's second child with Lucien Millevoye. Yeats wed Georgie Hyde-Lees (1892-1968) in 1917; they had two children together. Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in December 1923 "for his continually inspired poetry, which expresses the spirit of an entire people in a highly beautiful manner." On January 28, 1939, he died in the Hotel Ideal Séjour in Menton, France, at the age of 73. After a discrete and quiet funeral, he was laid to rest in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.