Mary Kinzie
Mary Kinzie (born September 30, 1944) is an American poet and critic, who spent much of her career teaching and directing the Creative Writing Program at Northwestern University.
Mary Kinzie
- Name
- Mary Kinzie
- Born
- 30 September 1944
- Birthplace
- Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.
- Occupation
- Poet
- Education
- Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Mary Kinzie • Born — 30 September 1944 • Birthplace — Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University
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Mary Kinzie appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a writer, poet and Anglicist (born 30 September 1944). The birth of Mary Kinzie is recorded on 30 September 1944.
Life
Life
She received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1967, and returned there to teach in 1975. She won Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the Free University of Berlin and Johns Hopkins University. She was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1985 and a National Humanities Center Fellowship in 2005. Kinzie won the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2008 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, the only major American prize to recognize a poet for teaching as well as writing.
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Poetry
* * * * * • Masked Women (1990) *
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Essays
• (which includes the influential and controversial essay "The Rhapsodic Fallacy").
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