Edward Hirsch—American Academic
Birth
Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950.
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Edward Mark Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950.
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Education
Edward Hirsch Levi was a singular product of the University of Chicago. His family ties to the University extended back to its opening in 1892, when his grandfather Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch was appointed to the faculty of the Divinity School in the field of rabbinical literature and philosophy. His wife, Kate Sulzberger, had also grown up in Hyde Park and attended the Lab Schools, and her father was a University trustee.
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Edward Hirsch Levi Edward H. Levi was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 26, 1911. He received his Ph.B. degree from the University of Chicago in 1932 and his JD degree there in 1935.
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Work
Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) an American poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City (not to be mistaken with E.D. Hirsch, Jr.)
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Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania. ... He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He teaches at the University of Houston.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~humiowa/HirschE.html
Edward Hirsch, a poet and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, told me plainly that, unlike so many theoretically minded English professors, "creative writers still talk about literature as literature."
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Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago and educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a PhD in folklore. He is the author of six books of poems: Lay Back the Darkness, On Love, Earthly Measures, The Night Parade, Wild Gratitude (1987 National Book Critics Circle Award), and For the Sleepwalkers (1983 Lavan Younger Poets Award, Delmore Schwartz Award). He is also the author of three prose books, including the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. ... Formerly a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston, Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/event_description.cfm?event=537
In October 1958 he "wandered down to the basement of our house to pick through some of my grandfather's forgotten books" and read a verse (Emily Brontë's "Spellbound") that entranced him. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with poetry, which he explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore. He was married to Janet Landay for over 25 years and recently ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hirsch
Edward Hirsch (born 1950) is an American poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poety. In October 1958 he "wandered down to the basement of our house to pick through some of my grandfather's forgotten books" and read a verse (Emily Brontë's Spellbound) that entranced him. It was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with poetry, which he explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in ..
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edward_hirsch
