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Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn in 1943.

He has written three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a collection of his movie criticism, and a biographical monograph, Rudy Burckhardt: Photographer and Filmmaker. In addition, there is a Phillip Lopate reader, Getting Personal: Selected Writings. His essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, The New York Times, and many other periodicals and anthologies.

He has been won many awards and honors, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.

He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at Hofstra University, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School, and Bennington.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Saturday, April 29 at 4:00
Discovering Roberto Bolaņo
Lopate Online
www.philliplopate.com

Read his essay "The Resurgence of the Essay." >>More

Read the PBS interview with Lopate. >>More

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