Brad Leithauser

Brad 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 University in the writing seminars department.

Biography

Leithauser, an alumni of the Cranbrook Kingswood School, 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. As of January, 2007, both Leithauser and his wife will have permanently 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", and "The New Yorker".

Leithauser is the uncle and godfather of Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen.

Awards & Grants

* Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
* MacArthur Fellowship
* Guggenheim Fellowship
* Medal of the Order of the Falcon (awarded by the President of Iceland)

Works

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)

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)

Essay collections

* "Penchants and Places" (1995)

Edited volumes

* "The Norton Book of Ghost Stories" (1994) ISBN 0-393-03564-6

External links

* [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june07/lovepoetry_02-14.html Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/37 Brad Leithauser in The New York Times]
* [http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/10/sept91/housman.htm Brad Leithauser in The New Criterion]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/by/brad_leithauser Brad Leithauser in The Atlantic]
* [http://www.tnr.com/showBio.mhtml?pid=552&sa=1 Brad Leithauser in The New Republic]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/37 Brad Leithauser in The New York Review of Books]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=17241 Brad Leithauser web index at Knopf]
* [http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book88/reviews/890109.NewYorker.html Leithauser in The New Yorker]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DE1F3FF937A35752C0A9629C8B63 Leithauser Review of Marianne Moore collection]
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