Alice Goodman, Lady Hill is an American poet and librettist. She is also an Anglican priest, working in England.

Biography

Goodman was born in

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, and attended and graduated from

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. She was educated at

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and Girton College, Cambridge, where she studied English and American literature. During the 1980s she published poems in venues such as

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and the

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. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams ('' Nixon in China'' and '' The Death of Klinghoffer'') and the text of a cantata by

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(''A Letter of Rights''). Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera '' Doctor Atomic'', but withdrew from this project after a year. She was raised as a Reform Jew, and converted to Christianity in 1989, as an adult. In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became

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of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including

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. Goodman married the noted English poet Geoffrey Hill in 1987. The couple have one daughter, Alberta.Mansfield (22 August 2005)

References

External links

*Dyer, Richard
"'Klinghoffer' librettist revels in power of words"
'' Boston Globe'', 1 September 1991, (subscription access) * *White, Michae
"Controversy gets another hearing"
'' Los Angeles Times'', 30 August 2005, p. E2 *Trinity College, Cambridge
Rev. Alice Goodman
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