Brad Leithauser
Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now on faculty at The Johns Hopkins University in the writing seminars department.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Leithauser was born in 1953 in Detroit, Michigan.[2] He is an alumnus of the Cranbrook Kingswood School and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.[3] He worked for three years as a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan. Leithauser has lived in Japan, Italy, England, Iceland, and France. His wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, is also a professor at Mount Holyoke. As of January, 2007, both Leithauser and his wife will have permanently joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Leithauser's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, and The New Yorker.
He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[4]
Leithauser is the uncle and godfather of Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen.
[edit] Awards and grants
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
- MacArthur Fellowship
- 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- Medal of the Order of the Falcon (awarded by the President of Iceland)
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry collections
- Hundreds of Fireflies Knopf, 1982, ISBN 9780394748962
- Cats of the Temple, Knopf, 1986, ISBN 9780394741529
- The Mail from Anywhere, Knopf, 1990, ISBN 9780394585864
- The Odd Last Thing She Did, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, ISBN 9780375401411
- Lettered creatures: light verse. David R. Godine Publisher. 2004. ISBN 9781567922752. http://books.google.com/books?id=EwfIuJFIv7UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Brad+Leithauser&hl=en&ei=D9ALTv7QJOnV0QGe54WkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Curves and Angles. Random House Digital, Inc.. 2006. ISBN 9780307265289. http://books.google.com/books?id=3fXhwXaCTGEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Brad+Leithauser&hl=en&ei=D9ALTv7QJOnV0QGe54WkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEwQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Toad to a Nightingale. David R. Godine Publisher. 2007. ISBN 9781567923414. http://books.google.com/books?id=tpXxOj7sbYQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Brad+Leithauser&hl=en&ei=D9ALTv7QJOnV0QGe54WkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false.
[edit] Novels
- Equal Distance, Knopf, 1985; New American Library, 1986, ISBN 9780452258181
- Hence, Knopf, 1989
- Seaward, Knopf, 1993
- The Friends of Freeland, A.A. Knopf, 1997, ISBN 9780679450832
- A Few Corrections. Random House Digital, Inc.. 2001. ISBN 9780375725586. http://books.google.com/books?id=F6PVfiLNvgAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Brad+Leithauser&hl=en&ei=D9ALTv7QJOnV0QGe54WkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, ISBN 9780375411489
- The Art Student's War Random House Digital, Inc., 2009, ISBN 9780307271112
[edit] Essay collections
- Penchants and Places, A.A. Knopf, 1995
[edit] Edited volumes
- The Norton Book of Ghost Stories (1994) ISBN 0-393-03564-6
[edit] Anthologies
- Katharine Washburn, John F. Thornton, ed (1997). "The Saving Minutes". Dumbing down: essays on the strip mining of American culture. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393317237. http://books.google.com/books?id=-iUEBfvoP_cC&pg=PA114&dq=Brad+Leithauser&hl=en&ei=D9ALTv7QJOnV0QGe54WkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CGMQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Brad%20Leithauser&f=false.
[edit] References
- ^ http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/faculty_directory/leithauser.html
- ^ "Brad Leithauser". Online NewsHour: Poetry Series. PBS NewsHour. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/profiles/poet_leithauser.html. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=17241
- ^ http://www.thecommononline.org/about
- ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/8604-brad-e-leithauser
[edit] External links
- Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock
- Brad Leithauser in The New York Times
- "A Good List", The New Criterion, October 2006
- Brad Leithauser in The New Criterion
- Brad Leithauser in The Atlantic
- Brad Leithauser in The New Republic
- Brad Leithauser in The New York Review of Books
- Brad Leithauser web index at Knopf
- Leithauser in The New Yorker
- Leithauser Review of Marianne Moore collection
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