Nationality American Years active 1982–present | Name Brad Leithauser Role Poet | |
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Born 27 February 1953 (age 71) ( 1953-02-27 ) Detroit, Michigan, United States Residence Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Occupation Novelist, essayist, poet, teacher Education Harvard Law School (1980), Harvard College Awards MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The Art Student's War, A Few Corrections, Darlington's Fall: A Novel in, The Oldest Word for Dawn: Ne, The Friends of Freeland | ||
Poet and Novelist Brad Leithauser on the Pull of Hometown and "The Oldest Word For Dawn"
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.
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- Poet and Novelist Brad Leithauser on the Pull of Hometown and The Oldest Word For Dawn
- Biography
- Awards and grants
- References
Biography
Leithauser was born in 1953 in Detroit, Michigan. He is an alumnus of the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and 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. 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.
Leithauser is the uncle and godfather of Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen.