Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received a BA from Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate from the Union Graduate School in 1979. He has written three personal essay collections —?Bachelorhood?(Little, Brown, 1981),?Against Joie de Vivre?(Poseidon-Simon & Schuster, 1989), and?Portrait of My Body?(Doubleday-Anchor, 1996); two novels,?Confessions of Summer?(Doubleday, 1979) and?The Rug Merchant?(Viking, 1987) and a pair of novellas (Two Marriages, Other Press, 2008); three poetry collections,?The Eyes Don’t Always Want to Stay Open?(Sun Press, 1972),?The Daily Round?(Sun Press, 1976) and?At the End of the Day(Marsh Hawk Press, 2010); a memoir of his teaching experiences,?Being With Children?(Doubleday, 1975); a collection of his movie criticism,?Totally Tenderly Tragically?(Doubleday-Anchor, 1998); an urbanist meditation,?Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan?(Crown, 2004); a critical study,?Notes On Sontag(Princeton University Press, 2009) and a biographical monograph,?Rudy Burckhardt: Photographer and Filmmaker?(Harry N. Abrams, 2004), and the collection of 21st century essays about his mother,?A Mother's Tale. In addition, there is a Phillip Lopate reader,?Getting Personal: Selected Writings?(Basic Books, 2003).?His two most recent publications are Portrait Inside My Head?(personal essays) and?To Show and to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction, which were both released in March 2013 from The Free Press/Simon & Schuster. He has edited the following anthologies:?The Art of the Personal Essay?(Doubleday-Anchor, 1994);?Writing New York?(Library of America, 1998),?Journey of a Living Experiment?(Virgil Press, 1979), a best essays of the year series,?The Anchor Essay Annual?(1997-99), and?American Movie Critics(Library of America, 2006), and most recently,?The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present?(Pantheon Books, 2020). His essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in?The Best American Short Stories?(1974),?The Best American Essays?(1987), several Pushcart Prize annuals,?The Paris Review,?Harper’s,?Vogue,?Esquire,?Film Comment,?Threepenny Review,?Double Take,?New York Times,?Harvard Educational Review,?Preservation,?Cite,?7 Days,?Metropolis,?Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. He received a Christopher medal for?Being With Children, a Texas Institute of Letters award in the best non-fiction book of the year category for?Bachelorhood, and was a finalist for the PEN best essay book of the year award for?Portrait of My Body. His anthology,?Writing New York, received a citation from the New York Society Library and honorable mention from the Municipal Art Society’s Brendan Gill Award. After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, Hofstra University, New York University and Bennington College. He is the former director of the nonfiction concentration in the graduate Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts, where he also teaches writing.
Phillip Lopate speaks at the National Arts Club
Writing
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Honors Professor Phillip Lopate
The American Academy of Arts and Letters?announced?the recipients of its highest honors for excellence in the arts, and Professor?Phillip Lopate?’64 (CC) is among the honorees.
Writing
Professor Phillip Lopate Edits New Anthology 'The Glorious American Essay'
Professor Phillip Lopate's latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present, was released on November 17, 2020 by Pantheon Books.?
Professor Phillip Lopate's 'The Glorious American Essay'
The National Arts Club hosted an evening with Writing Professor Phillip Lopate ’64 (CC), accompanied by Vivian Gornick and Wayne Koestenbaum to discuss Lopate’s latest anthology, The Glorious American Essay.
Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Columbia College Alumnus 1964
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