Authors and Illustrators Database

Richard Williford Tillinghast

Born: 11/25/1940  Memphis, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Raymond Charles (a mechanical engineer) and Martha Tillinghast
Spouse: Nancy Walton Pringle (1st), Mary Graves (2nd)
Children: (2nd) Josh, Julia, Andrew, Charles
Address(es):
HI  
TN  
Contact Information:
Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rwtill

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
An Armchair traveller's history of Istanbul : city of remembering and forgetting Non Fiction, Travel Adult London : Armchair Traveller 2012
Wayfaring Stranger Poetry Adult San Luis Obispo, CA : Word Palace Press 2012
Finding Ireland : A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture Poetry Adult South Bend, IN : University of Notre Dame Press 2009
The New Life : Poems Poetry Adult Providence, RI : Copper Beech Press 2008
Poetry and What is Real Poetry Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 2004
Six Mile Mountain Poetry Adult Ashland, OR : Story Line Press 2000
Today in the Cafe Trieste Poetry Adult Chester Springs, PA : Dufour Editions 1997
A Visit to the Gallery : The University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Editor and Author of Introduction : published on the occasion of the Museum of Art's fiftieth anniversary
Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan 1997
Robert Lowell's Life and Work : Damaged Grandeur
- Criticism
Non Fiction Adult Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press 1995
The Stonecutter's Hand : Poems Poetry Adult Boston, MA : David R. Godine 1994
Contemporary Michigan Poetry : Poems from the Third Coast
- Included in Anthology
Poetry Detroit, MI : Wayne State University 1988
Our Flag Was Still There
- Includes Swanee in Ruins
Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1984
Sewanee in Ruins Poetry Adult Sewanee, Tennessee : University of the South 1981
The Knife and Other Poems Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1980
Sleep Watch Poetry Adult Middletown, CN : Wesleyan University Press 1969
- Contributor to Antaeus, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Crazy Horse, Critical Quarterly, Harper's Bazaar, Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Yale Review Poetry

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

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet
Other - Reviewer

Awards:

Name Date
Guggenheim Fellowship 2010
Honorary doctorate from the University of the South 2008
Southern Review’s Cleanth Brooks Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- For his long essay “Istanbul in Winter"
2007
James Dickey Poetry Prize
- For "Five Points"
2006
Pushcart Prize Nomination 1993-1995
Ann Stanford Prize for Poetry
- For "Pasha's Daughter, 1914"
1992
University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Study, Faculty Recognition Award 1990
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
- He moved his family to Kinvara, a tiny fishing village on Ireland’s Galway Bay.
1990-1991
Michigan Council for the Arts Creative Artist Grant 1986
Yaddo Writers' Retreat Residency 1986
Michigan Arts Council Grant 1985
Bread Loaf Fellowship 1982
University of California, Berkeley, Creative Arts Institute Grant 1970
Harvard University, Sinclair-Kennedy Travel Grant 1966-1967
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1962-1963
Washtenaw Council for the Arts, Annie Award
- Award received for following years: 1993, 1995
Bear River Writers's Conference, Petoskey, MI

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by The Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 29 1984
Contemporary Authors
-  Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 29-32R Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, volume(s) 23 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 26, 51, 96
1978-2001

Memberships:

Name Date
Member and Board of Directors of The Poet's House, Ireland

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Harvard University Cambridge, MA 1970
Master of Arts (A. M.) Harvard University Cambridge, MA 1963
Bachelor of Arts (A. B.) University of the South Sewanee, TN 1962

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
- Summer fellowhip at University of Bosphorus, Istanbul American Institute in Turkey Fellowship Turkey 1990-1990
Faculty Associate Michigan Institute for the Humanities Ann Arbor 1989-1990
Associate Professor, Professor of English University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1983-2005
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Poetry Harvard University Cambridge, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1980-1983
Visiting Professor University of the South Sewanee, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1979-1980
Assistant professor of English University of California Berkeley 1968-1973
Poetry Reviewer
- New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, The Nation, The Hudson Review, and The New Criterion
New York Times Book Review, Washington Post and The Nation

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