Mary Kinzie
- Born
- 1944 · Montgomery.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer · scholar of english
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University · Northwestern University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Mary Kinzie • Born — 1944 09 30 • Birthplace — Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. • Occupation — Poet • Education — Northwestern University Johns Hopkins University 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.
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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* * * * * • Masked Women (1990) *
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• (which includes the influential and controversial essay "The Rhapsodic Fallacy").
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