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Poet Laureate Of New York
The State Poet of New York is the poet laureate for the U.S. state of New York. The position of New York State Poet was established by a special mandate of the New York State Legislature on August 1, 1985. In 1988, New York also established a position for other genres of writing entitled New York State Author. In 2016, Governor Cuomo also named Joseph Tusiani poet laureate emeritus. List of poets laureate * Stanley Kunitz (1987–1989) * Robert Creeley (1989–1991) * Audre Lorde (1991–1993) * Richard Howard (1993–1995) * Jane Cooper (1995–1997) * Sharon Olds (1998–2000) * John Ashbery (2001–2003) * Billy Collins (2004–2006) * Jean Valentine (2008–2010) * Marie Howe (2012–2014) * Yusef Komunyakaa (2015–2017) * Alicia Ostriker (2018–2021) * Willie Perdomo (2021–2023) * Patricia Spears Jones (2023–2025) * Kimiko Hahn (2025–present) List of state authors * Grace Paley (1986–1988) * E. L. Doctorow (1989–1991) * Norman Mailer (1991–1993) * William G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn (born July 5, 1955) is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities. Biography Hahn was born in Mount Kisco, New York, on July 5, 1955. Her parents are both artists. Her mother, Maude Miyako Hamai, was a Japanese American from Maui, Hawaii; her father, Walter Hahn, was a German American from Wisconsin. They met in Chicago, where Walter was a friend of the notable African American author Ralph Ellison. Her sister is Tomie Hahn, a performer and ethnologist. Hahn grew up in Pleasantville, New York, and between 1964 and 1965, the Hahns later lived in Tokyo, Japan. As a teen, she became involved in the New York City Asian American movement of the 1970s. Zhou Xiaojing has commented that her racially mixed background influenced "her profound understanding of the politics of the body" as seen in her poetry (113). In the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar (born October 28, 1970) is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He has received numerous accolades including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as nominations for two Tony Awards. Akhtar is known as a playwright covering various themes including the American-Muslim experience, racism, religion, economics, immigration, and identity. For his work on Broadway, Akhtar received Tony Award for Best Play nominations for '' Disgraced'' (2015) and '' Junk'' (2017). He also authored the plays ''The Who & The What'', '' The Invisible Hand'' and '' McNeal''. His plays have been produced on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in London. He earned acclaim for authoring two novels '' American Dervish'' (2012) and '' Homeland Elegies'' (2020). He received numerous awards including the American Book Award for the later. He co-wrote and starred in the political drama film '' The War Within'' (2005) for which he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colson Whitehead
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 in literature, 1999 debut ''The Intuitionist''; ''The Underground Railroad (novel), The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and ''The Nickel Boys'', for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship. Early life Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm. As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson. He attended Trinity School (New York City), Trinity School i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund White
Edmund Valentine White III (January 13, 1940 – June 3, 2025) was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer, and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with rare candor about gay identity, relationships, and sex. His work emerged as part of an increasingly solidified and visible LGBTQ community, helping to reshape public narratives at a time when coming out was still a dangerous, even radical act. His writing, noted for intimate depth and literary elegance, includes the semi-autobiographical trilogy '' A Boy's Own Story'' (1982), '' The Beautiful Room Is Empty'' (1988), and '' The Farewell Symphony'' (1997). He also co-authored '' The Joy of Gay Sex'' (1977), promoting sex-positive discourse. Born in Cincinnati and raised outside Chicago, White studied Chinese at the University of Michigan after initially declining admission to Harvard University in order to adhere to conversion therapy. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Lurie
Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel ''Foreign Affairs''. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress. Life Alison Stewart Lurie was born on September 3, 1926, in Chicago, and raised in White Plains, New York. Her father Harry Lawrence Lurie was a sociologist, and her mother Bernice Lurie (''née'' Stewart) was a journalist and book critic. Her father was born in Latvia and her mother was born in Scotland. Her father was the first executive director of the National Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Due to complications with a forceps delivery, she was born deaf in one ear and with damage to her facial muscles. She attended a boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, and graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1947 with a bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gordon (writer)
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York. Early life and education Mary Gordon was born in Far Rockaway, New York,Don Lee, "About Mary Gordon: A Profile" ''Ploughshares'', Issue 73 , Fall 1997; accessed 14 Aug 2018 to Anna (Gagliano) Gordon, an Irish-Italian mother, and David Gordon, who was also Catholic. Her father died in 1957 when she was young. She strongly identified with him and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Banks
Russell Earl Banks (March 28, 1940 – January 8, 2023) was an American writer of fiction and poetry. His novels are known for "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". He drew from his own childhood in the working class, but also from the larger world, such as his years in Jamaica. His novels often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships". Banks was a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Life and career Russell Earl Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He was the son of Florence (née Taylor), a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12, making their survival even more difficult. Awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, Banks dropped out six weeks into university and tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army, U.S. Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was prisoner of war, interned in Dresden, where he survived the Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Salter
James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, ''The Hunters''. After a brief career in film writing and film directing, in 1979 Salter published the novel ''Solo Faces''. He won numerous literary awards for his works, including belated recognition of works originally criticized at the time of their publication. Biography On June 10, 1925, Salter was born and named James Arnold Horowitz, the son of Mildred Scheff and George Horowitz. His father was a real estate broker and businessman who had graduated from West Point in November 1918 and served in the Corps of Engineers with both Army and Army Reserve. The elder Horowitz attained the rank of colonel and was a recipient of the Legio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine ''The Paris Review'', he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both National Book Award for Nonfiction, nonfiction (''The Snow Leopard'', 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and National Book Award for Fiction, fiction (''Shadow Country'', 2008)."Washington Post Obituary" Obituary, Washington Post, April 6, 2014. He was also a prominent environmental activist. Matthiessen's nonfiction featured nature and travel, notably ''The Snow Leopard'' (1978) and Native Americans i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gaddis
William Thomas Gaddis Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. The first and longest of his five novels, ''The Recognitions'', was named one of TIME magazine's 100 best novels from 1923 to 2005 and two others, '' J R'' and '' A Frolic of His Own'', won the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.National Book Foundation: Awards"National Book Award Winners: 1950–2009". Retrieved March 28, 2012. A collection of his essays was published posthumously as '' The Rush for Second Place'' (2002). ''The Letters of William Gaddis'' was published by Dalkey Archive Press in February 2013. A MacArthur Fellow, Gaddis is widely considered one of the first and most important American postmodern writers. Life and career Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics", and Edith (Charles) Gaddis, who worked her way up from being secretary to the president of the New York Steam Corporation to an exec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
