Daniel Mark Epstein
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Daniel Mark Epstein was born in Washington, D.C. and studied English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (B.A. 1970). His poetry has earned him numerous awards and fellowships, notably the NEA Poetry Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome, and the Robert Frost Prize. His work has been anthologized in several collections of essays and poetry. He is also a playwright, a translator (of Plautus and Euripides), and a biographer. The New Republic noted: "He is centrally a love poet, and a splendid one, an advent I find most welcome on the landscape of 20th Century literature."
[edit] Selected works
[edit] Poetry collections
- No Vacancies In Hell (1973)
- Young Men's Gold (1978)
- Spirits (1995)
- The Traveler's Calendar (2002)
[edit] Biographies
- Sister Aimee: The Life of Aimee Semple McPherson (1994)
- Nat King Cole (2000)
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2002)
- Lincoln and Whitman : Parallel lives in Civil War Washington (2004)
