Phillip Lopate
Author of The Art of the Personal Essay
About the Author
Phillip Lopate is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections, Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; and Waterfront. He directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
Disambiguation Notice:
Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip. .
Image credit: Phillip Lopate. UH Photographs Collection.
Series
Works by Phillip Lopate
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Editor — 92 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Editor — 79 copies
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 447 copies
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contributor — 179 copies
New York 400: A Visual History of America's Greatest City with Images from The Museum of the City of New York (2009) — Contributor — 69 copies
Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Contributor — 62 copies
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Contributor — 59 copies
Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult but Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998) — Contributor — 17 copies
Telephone #9 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Lopate, Phillip
- Birthdate
- 1943-11-16
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Education
- Columbia University (BA)
Union University (PhD) - Occupations
- film critic
essayist
poet
teacher
professor - Organizations
- Hofstra University
- Awards and honors
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts grant
Guggenheim Fellowship - Disambiguation notice
- Correct spelling of author's first name is Phillip, not Philip.
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- Works
- 40
- Also by
- 22
- Members
- 3,444
- Popularity
- #7,381
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 77
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- Touchstones
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