Honor Moore (born October 28, 1945) is an American writer of

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and plays. She currently teaches at

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in the MFA program for creative nonfiction, where she is a part-time associate teaching professor. ''The Bishop's Daughter'', a memoir of her relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore, was named an Editor's Choice by ''

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'', a Favorite Book of 2008 by the ''

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'', and chosen by the

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as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list as well as a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature.

Biography

Honor Moore was born in 1945 to Jenny Moore and of Bishop Paul Moore. She attended the David Geffen School of Drama at

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between 1967 and 1979.

Career

Moore has been poet-in-residence at

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and the

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, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts, and was the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the

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. She is the author of three collections of poems: ''Red Shoes'', ''Darling'', and ''Memoir''; two works of nonfiction, ''The White Blackbird'' and ''The Bishop's Daughter''; and the play ''Mourning Pictures'', which was produced on Broadway and published in ''The New Women’s Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women'', which she edited. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the

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, The

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and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a

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. In 2012, Moore served as the prestigious Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the

's Nonfiction Writing Program. She is the editor of ''Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America'' and co-editor of ''The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems'', translated by Paul Schmidt. She teaches in the graduate writing programs at

and

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. From 2005 to 2007, she was an

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theatre critic for ''

''. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine '' The Common'', based at

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, and published work in the debut issue. Our Revolution by Honor Moore

''The Bishop's Daughter'', a memoir of her relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore, was named an Editor's Choice by ''

'', a Favorite Book of 2008 by the ''

'', and chosen by the

as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list as well as a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature. In April 2009, the

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published ''Poems from the Women's Movement'', an anthology edited by Honor Moore. A re-issue of ''The White Blackbird'' has been published, alongside the paperback release of ''The Bishop's Daughter''. Her most recent book,
Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
'' was released March 2020.

Bibliography

* ''Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury (2019) '' * ''The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir'' (2008) * ''Red Shoes - Poems'' (2005) * ''Darling'' (2001) * ''The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter'' (1996) * ''Memoir'' (1988)

References

External links

Officuial websiteHonorMoore.com
(official website)
After Ariel: Celebrating the poetry of the women's movement
by Honor Moore in the ''

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''
Memoir and Poetry
by Honor Moore o
Poems Out Loud
*Audio
Honor Moore reads "Disparu"
from the book ''Red Shoes'' *Honor Moore read her poetry at the Poetry of Rage Readings produced in 1974 by the

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. * See also her theater review "Theater Will Never Be the Same" published 1977 discussing feminist theater

Papers of Honor Moore.
http://radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
2008 ''Bomb Magazine'' discussion between Honor Moore & Victoria Redel
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