Brad Leithauser

"Leithauser" redirects here. For the American musician, see Hamilton Leithauser.

Brad E. Leithauser
Born	(1953-02-27) February 27, 1953 (age 72) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Education	Harvard University
Occupations	Novelist essayist poet teacher
Years active	1982–present
Employer(s)	Mount Holyoke College Johns Hopkins University

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

• Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
• MacArthur Fellowship
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[5]
• 1984 Younger Poets Award from Academy of American Poets ^[6]
• Medal of the Order of the Falcon (awarded by the President of Iceland)

Bibliography

Poetry collections

• Hundreds of Fireflies Knopf, 1982, ISBN   978-0-394-74896-2
• Cats of the Temple, Knopf, 1986, ISBN   978-0-394-74152-9
• The Mail from Anywhere, Knopf, 1990, ISBN   978-0-394-58586-4
• The Odd Last Thing She Did, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, ISBN   978-0-375-40141-1
• Lettered creatures: light verse. David R. Godine Publisher. 2004. ISBN   978-1-56792-275-2.
• Curves and Angles. Random House Digital, Inc. 2006. ISBN   978-0-307-26528-9.
• Toad to a Nightingale. David R. Godine Publisher. 2007. ISBN   978-1-56792-341-4.

Novels

• Equal Distance, Knopf, 1985; New American Library, 1986, ISBN   978-0-452-25818-1
• Hence, Knopf, 1989
• Seaward, Knopf, 1993
• The Friends of Freeland, A.A. Knopf, 1997, ISBN   978-0-679-45083-2
• A Few Corrections. Random House Digital, Inc. 2001. ISBN   978-0-375-72558-6.
• Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse, Alfred A. Knopf, 2002, ISBN   978-0-375-41148-9
• The Art Student's War, Random House Digital, Inc., 2009, ISBN   978-0-307-27111-2
• The Promise of Elsewhere, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019, ISBN   978-0-525-65503-9

Essay collections

• Penchants and Places, A.A. Knopf, 1995

Edited volumes

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

Anthologies

• Katharine Washburn; John F. Thornton, eds. (1997). "The Saving Minutes". Dumbing down: essays on the strip mining of American culture. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-393-31723-7.

References

1. "Brad Leithauser". Writingseminars.jhu.edu. Archived from the original on December 14, 2012. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
2. "Brad Leithauser". Online NewsHour: Poetry Series. PBS NewsHour. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
3. "Brad Leithauser Author Bookshelf - Random House - Books - Audiobooks - Ebooks". Random House. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
4. "About | The Common". Thecommononline.org. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
5. "Brad E. Leithauser - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on December 27, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
6. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1985. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, Inc. 1984. p. 414. ISBN   0-911818-71-5.

External links

• Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock
• Brad Leithauser in The New York Times
• Brad Leithauser in The New Criterion
  • "A Good List", The New Criterion, October 2006
  • “A science fiction writer of the Fifties”, April 2006
• 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