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Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville.
Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, biographer, screenwriter, and critic. Photo: Oliver Parini Photography. What you’ll find here is biographical information about me as well as links to most of my books, plus links to many op-ed pieces I’ve written for CNN, Salon, and The Daily Beast . For the most part, I’ve been writing poems, novels ...
BIO. Photo: Oliver Parini Photography. Jay Parini was born in 1948 in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and he was raised in Scranton. He graduated from both Lafayette College and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he received a Ph.D. in 1975. His six books of poetry include New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015 and The Art of Subtraction .
5 days ago · Editor’s Note: Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College. His most recent book is “Borges and Me,” a memoir of his travels in the highlands of Scotland with Argentine ...
Jay Parini. Poet, novelist, biographer, editor, and critic Jay Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and raised in Scranton. He earned a BA at Lafayette College and a PhD at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His allusive, musical poems are often grounded in contemporary domestic and political landscapes and frequently return to ...
Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America. New York: Doubleday, 2008. (criticism) Last Steps: Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy, editor. London and New York: Penguin, 2009. Make a Gift. Jay Parini, D. E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing.
In 1971 Jay Parini was an aspiring poet and graduate student of literature at University of St Andrews in Scotland; he was also in flight from being drafted into service in the Vietnam War. One day his friend and mentor, Alastair Reid, asked Jay if he could play host for a "visiting Latin American writer" while he attended to business in London.
Jay Parini. Jay Parini was born on April 2, 1948, in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Scranton. He earned his AB in 1970 from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. During his junior year, he studied abroad at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland, where he immediately returned after graduating from Lafayette to receive his PhD ...
Aug 18, 2020 · By Jay Parini. This is a memoir about writers: a young poet, his middle-aged mentor and, at the story’s pale bright center, a 71-year-old wizard of language. Wishing to escape the draft and ...
Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.. Jay Parini is the author of The L...
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