Brad Leithauser

Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953 ) is an American writer , poet and university lecturer. After working as a humanities lecturer at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professorships in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , he holds a professorship at Johns Hopkins University and leads seminars in creative writing .

life and work

Leithauser was born in Detroit in 1953 .

He attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan, and studied at Harvard College and Harvard Law School . After graduating, Leithauser worked for three years as a Research Fellow at the Comparative Law Center in Kyoto, Japan.

Leithauser has lived in Japan, Italy, England, Iceland and France.

He is married to the poet Mary Jo Salter, who also holds a professorship at Johns Hopkins University.

Leithauser's poems have been published in The New York Times , The New York Review of Books , Time, and The New Yorker .

Awards and honors

• Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
• MacArthur Fellowship
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2005 Knight of the Order of the Falcons (awarded by the President of Iceland)

Works

Poetry collections

• Hundreds of Fireflies , Knopf, New York 1982, ISBN 978-0-394-74896-2
• Cats of the Temple , Knopf, New York 1986, ISBN 978-0-394-74152-9
• The Mail from Anywhere , Knopf, New York 1990, ISBN 978-0-394-58586-4
• The Odd Last Thing She Did , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-375-40141-1
• Lettered creatures: light verse . David R. Godine Publisher, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56792-275-2 .
• Curves and Angles . Random House Digital, Inc., 2006, ISBN 978-0-307-26528-9 .
• Toad to a Nightingale . David R. Godine Publisher, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56792-341-4 .

Novels

• Equal Distance , Knopf, New York 1985; New American Library, 1986, ISBN 978-0-452-25818-1
• Hence , Knopf, New York 1989
• Seaward , Knopf, New York 1993
• The Friends of Freeland , AA Knopf, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-45083-2
• Knopf (Ed.): A Few Corrections . Random House Digital, Inc., New York 2001, ISBN 9780375725586 .
• Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-375-41148-9
• The Art Student's War Random House Digital, Inc., 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-27111-2

Essays

• Penchants and Places , AA Knopf, New York 1995

As editor

• The Norton Book of Ghost Stories , WW Norton & Company , New York 1994, ISBN 0-393-03564-6

Anthologies

• The Saving Minutes . In: Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton (Eds.): Dumbing down: essays on the strip mining of American culture . WW Norton & Company, 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-31723-7 .

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Brad Leithauser . In: Online NewsHour: Poetry Series . PBS NewsHour. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
3. ↑ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=17241
4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Brad E. Leithauser. In: gf.org. Retrieved February 13, 2016 . 

Web links

• Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock
• Leithauser in The New Yorker
• Leithauser Review of Marianne Moore collection