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Getting Personal: Selected Writings
Author(s): Phillip Lopate (Author)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 0465041736
- ISBN-13: 9780465041732
Book Description
A collection of essays, poems, and prose traces the author’s career and life and is organized under six sections including “Childhood,” “Youth,” “Early Marriage and Bachelorhood,” “Teaching and Work,” “Fiction,” “Politics, Religion, Movies, Books, Cities,” and “The Style of Middle Age.” 25,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Currently the John Cranford Adams Chair of the English Department at Hofstra University, Phillip Lopate is the author of five works of nonfiction, two novels, and two books of poems, as well as serving as editor of the best-selling collections Writing New York and The Art of the Personal Essay. The recipient of two Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts grants, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
