Brad Leithauser
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Brad Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. He is the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and is a visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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[edit] Biography
Leithauser is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. 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.
Leithauser's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, and The New Yorker.
[edit] Awards & Grants
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
- MacArthur Fellowship
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Medal of the Order of the Falcon (awarded by the President of Iceland)
[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry collections
- Hundreds of Fireflies (1982)
- Cats of the Temple (1986)
- The Mail from Anywhere (1990)
- The Odd Last Thing She Did (1998)
- Curves and Angles (2006)
[edit] Novels
- Equal Distance (1985)
- Hence (1989)
- Seaward (1993)
- The Friends of Freeland (1997)
- A Few Corrections (2001)
- Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (2002)
[edit] Essay collections
- Penchants and Places (1995)
[edit] Edited volumes
- The Norton Book of Ghost Stories (1994) ISBN 0-393-03564-6
[edit] External links
- Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock
- Brad Leithauser in The New York Times
- 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
- 1985 interview with Brad Leithauser by Don Swaim
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