Brad Leithauser Explained

Brad E. Leithauser
Birth Date:27 February 1953
Birth Place:Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Years Active:1982–present

Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. 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 now on faculty at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.[1]

Biography

Leithauser was born in 1953 in Detroit, Michigan.[2] He is an alumnus of the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.[3] 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. He was married to the poet Mary Jo Salter for many years (they divorced in December 2011) and previously taught at Mount Holyoke College. In January, 2007, Leithauser joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Leithauser's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, The New Yorker, and The New Criterion.

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.

Awards and grants

Bibliography

Poetry collections

Novels

Essay collections

Edited volumes

Anthologies

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brad Leithauser . Writingseminars.jhu.edu . 2013-12-26 . dead . https://archive.today/20121214193218/http://writingseminars.jhu.edu/faculty_directory/leithauser.html . 2012-12-14 .
  2. Web site: Brad Leithauser. Online NewsHour: Poetry Series. PBS NewsHour. July 8, 2010. October 16, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131016171946/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/profiles/poet_leithauser.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Brad Leithauser Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks . Random House . 2013-12-26.
  4. Web site: About | The Common . Thecommononline.org . 2013-12-26.
  5. Web site: Brad E. Leithauser - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Gf.org . 2013-12-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131227083935/http://www.gf.org/fellows/8604-brad-e-leithauser . 2013-12-27 .
  6. Book: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1985 . 1984 . Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. . New York . 0-911818-71-5 . 414.