Jack Marshall (author)

Jack Marshall (author)

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name = Jack Marshall
birth_date = 1936
birth_place = Brooklyn, United States
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Jack Marshall (born 1936 in Brooklyn, United States) is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage. [ [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/09/06_eventspreview2.shtml Coming attractions for fall 2006: Page 2 ] ]

Upbringing

He grew up speaking Arabic in a Sephardic Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arabic and Jewish culture. [ [http://www.amazon.com/Baghdad-Brooklyn-Jewish-Arabic-Midcentury-America/dp/1566891744 Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall ] ] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighbourhood.

Career and accolades

He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1566891744From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America] , along with [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1566890543 Millennium Fever:Poems] , proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for "From Baghdad to Brooklyn". [ [http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/whats-new.php/2006/12/01/lunch_poems_reading_by_jack_marshall What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall ] ] He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2008.

Personal life

Jack discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he used to attend night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz. [ [http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/08/31_lunchpoems.shtml 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup ] ] He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he is interested in.

He currently resides in Bay Area.

Works

* "From Baghdad to Brooklyn" (2005)
* "Gorgeous Chaos: New and Selected Poems" (1965-2001)
* "Sesame" (1993)
* "Millennium Fever: Poems"

References

Videos

* [http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=75 From Baghdad to Brooklyn]


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