Name Ruth Whitman Role Poet | Education Radcliffe College | |
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Died 1999, Middletown, Rhode Island, United States Awards National Jewish Book Award for English Poetry Books Hatshepsut - speak to me, An anthology of moder, Tamsen Donner: A Woman's, The testing of Hanna Senesh, Becoming a Poet: Source - P | ||
MCNY Presents Composer Mira J. Spektor: Four Songs on Poems by Ruth Whitman
Ruth Whitman (1922–1999) was an American poet, translator, and professor. Her eighth and last book is Hatshepshut, Speak to me (Wayne State University Press, 1992), and her most well-known and well-regarded is Tamsen Donner: A Woman’s Journey (Alice James Books, 1977). She also translated poetry from Yiddish, and wrote the beloved poem Sisters. Her honors and awards include a Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. Her poems were published in literary journals and magazines including AGNI and Ploughshares. She was an early cooperative member of Alice James Books, and was the poetry editor for Radcliffe Quarterly from 1980 - 1995.
Contents
- MCNY Presents Composer Mira J Spektor Four Songs on Poems by Ruth Whitman
- Personal life
- Published works
- References
Personal life
Ruth (Bashein) Whitman, the oldest daughter of Meyer David and Martha H. (Sherman) Bashein, was born on May 28, 1922, in New York City. She received a B.A. and an M.A. from Radcliffe College, and also taught at Radcliffe, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during her career. At the time of her death, she lived in Middletown, Rhode Island, and was married to Morton Sacks (her third husband), a painter, and had three children, Rachel, Lee, and David. Her first marriage was to Cedric Whitman and her second to Firman Houghton.
Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections
Translations
Non-fiction