Authors and Illustrators Database

Edward Hirsch

Born: 01/20/1950  Chicago
Parents: Kurt and Irma Hirsch
Spouse: Janet Landay (museum curator)
Children: Gabriel
Address(es):
Permanent:
1528 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
Permanent:
Department of English, University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.edwardhirsch.com

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Gabriel : a poem Poetry Adult New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
Lay Back the Darkness Poetry Adult New York : Knopf 2003
How to Read a Poem : And Fall in Love with Poetry Non Fiction, Poetry Adult San Diego : Harvest Books/ New York : Harcourt Brace & Co. 1999
Responsive Reading
- Poetry-History & criticism 		Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 1999
On Love Poetry Adult New York : Alfred Knopf 1998
Earthly Measures Poetry Adult New York : Alfred Knopf 1994
Transforming Vision : Writers on Art
- selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch 		Non Fiction Adult Boston : Little, Brown and Co. 1994
The Night Parade Poetry Adult New York : Knopf 1989
Wild Gratitude Poetry Adult New York : Knopf 1986
For the Sleepwalkers Poetry Adult New York : Knopf 1981
Other writings:
- Contributor to New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Nation, New Republic, New York Times Book Review and Paris Review

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award 1998
MacArthur fellow 1998
Lyndhurst Prize 1994-1996
William Riley Parker Prize, Modern Language Association 1992
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 1982
National Book Critics Circle Award nonimation for "For The Sleepwalkers" 1982
American Council of Learned Societies fellow 1981
Amy Lowell traveling fellow 1978-1979
Ingram Merrill Award, Ingram Merrill Foundation 1978-1979
Academy of American Poets Awards 1975-1977
Watson Fellow 1972-1973

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 120 1992
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Literary Criticism, v. 50 1988
Contemporary Authors

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 1979
Bachelor of Arts (B.A. ) Grinnell College Grinnell, IA 1972

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
President John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2002
Associate professor, Professor of English
-  (1985-1988, 1988-) 		University of Houston Houston, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1985
Assistant professor, Associate Professor
-  (1979-1982, 1982-1985) 		Wayne State University Detroit 1979-1985
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