Brad Leithauser. Courtesy Amazon.com.
Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and academic.
Life[]
Leithauser was born in 1953 in Detroit, Michigan.[1] He is an alumnus of the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.[2] He worked for 3 years as a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan. Leithauser has lived in Japan, Italy, England, Iceland, and France.
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 on faculty at Johns Hopkins University in the writing seminars department.[3] His wife, poet Mary Jo Salter, is also a professor at Johns Hopkins.
Leithauser's work has appeared in The New York Times, 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.
Recognition[]
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)
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Hundreds of Fireflies. New York: Knopf, 1982. ISBN 978-0-394-74896-2
- Cats of the Temple: Poems. New York: Knopf. 1986. ISBN 978-0-394-74152-9
- The Mail from Anywhere. New York: Knopf, 1990. ISBN 978-0-394-58586-4
- The Odd Last Thing She Did. New York: Knopf, 1998. ISBN 978-0-375-40141-1
- Darlington's Fall: A novel in verse. New York: Knopf, 2003. ISBN 978-0-375-41148-9
- Lettered creatures: light verse (illustrated by Mark Leithauser). Boston: Godine, 2004. ISBN 978-1-56792-275-2
- Curves and Angles. New York: Knopf, Inc., 2006. ISBN 978-0-307-26528-9
- Toad to a Nightingale: Light verse. Boston: Godine, 2007. ISBN 978-1-56792-341-4
- Oldest Word for Dawn: New and selected poems. New York: Knopf, 2013.
Novels[]
- Equal Distance. New York: Knopf, 1985; New York: New American Library, 1986; New York & London: Penguin, 1990. ISBN 978-0-452-25818-1
- Hence. New York: Knopf, 1989; New York: Penguin, 1990.
- Seaward. New York: Knopf, 1993.
- The Friends of Freeland. New York: Knopf, 1997. ISBN 978-0-679-45083-2
- A Few Corrections. New York: Knopf, 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-72558-6
- The Art Student's War. New York: Knop, 2009. ISBN 978-0-307-27111-2
Essays[]
- Penchants and Places: Essays and criticism. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Edited[]
- Norton Book of Ghost Stories. Norton, 1994. ISBN 0-393-03564-6
Brad Leithauser "The Oldest Word For Dawn"
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "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://writingseminars.jhu.edu/faculty_directory/leithauser.html
- ↑ http://www.thecommononline.org/about
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/8604-brad-e-leithauser
- ↑ Brad Leithauser, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 3, 2018.
External links[]
- Poems
- "A Good List", The New Criterion, October 2006
- "Nightfall," The Atlantic
- Brad Leithauser b. 1953 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Prose
- Books
- Brad Leithauser at Amazon.com
- Brad Leithauser web index at Knopf
- About
- Poet Profile, PBS NewsHour.
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