Fiction
Leslie Epstein
Ha Jin
Allegra Goodman
Poetry
Robert Pinsky
David Ferry
Louise Glück
Derek Walcott
(also Playwriting)
Rosanna Warren
Playwriting
Kate Snodgrass
Richard Schotter
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David Ferry - Poetry
David Ferry was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1924. He completed
his education at Amherst College and Harvard University, and served
as a Sergeant in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946.
His books of poetry and translation include Of No Country I Know:
New and Selected Poems and Translations (University of Chicago
Press, 1999), The Eclogues of Virgil (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1999), The Odes of Horace: A Translation (1998), Dwelling
Places: Poems and Translations (1993), Gilgamesh: A New Rendering
in English Verse (1992), Strangers: A Book of Poems (1983),
On the Way to the Island (1960), and The Limits of Mortality:
An Essay on Wordsworth's Major Poems (1959). His Epistles of
Horace: A Translation appeared in 2001 from Farrar, Straus and
Giroux.
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations
won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Bingham Poetry Prize from
Boston Book Review and was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award
and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Ferry's other awards include
the Sixtieth Fellowship of The Academy of American Poets, the Teasdale
Prize for Poetry, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship,
the Ingram Merrill Award, and the William Arrowsmith Translation Prize
from AGNI magazine. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is the Sophie Chantal Hart Professor Emeritus of English at Wellesley
College, and in the spring of 2004 he will be a Visiting Lecturer
in Creative Writing at Boston University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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