Brad Leithauser

Brad E. Leithauser ( born February 27, 1953) is an American writer, poet and university teacher. After working as a lecturer in Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professorships in the context of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University and leads seminars for Creative Writing.

Life and work

He has the Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills in Michigan visited and studied at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. After studying Leithauser worked for three years as a Research Fellow at the Comparative Law Center in Kyoto, Japan.

He is married to the poet Mary Jo Salter, who also innhehat a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Leitha Users poems were published in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time and The New Yorker.

Awards and honors

  • Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
  • MacArthur Fellowship
  • 1982 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2005 Knight of the Hawk North ( awarded by the President of Iceland )

Works

Poetry collections

  • Dog Hundreds of Fireflies, Knopf, New York 1982, ISBN 978-0-394-74896-2
  • Cats of the Temple, Knopf, New York 1986, ISBN 978-0-394-74152-9
  • The Mail from Anywhere, Knopf, New York, 1990, ISBN 978-0-394-58586-4
  • The Odd Last Thing She Did, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1998, ISBN 978-0-375-40141-1
  • Lettered creatures: light verse. David R. Godine Publisher, 2004, ISBN 978-1-56792-275-2.
  • Curves and Angles. Random House Digital, Inc., 2006, ISBN 978-0-307-26528-9.
  • Toad to a Nightingale. David R. Godine Publisher, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56792-341-4.

Novels

  • Equal Distance, Knopf, New York 1985; New American Library, 1986, ISBN 978-0-452-25818-1
  • HENCE, Knopf, New York 1989
  • Seaward, Knopf, New York 1993
  • The Friends of Freeland, A. A. Knopf, New York 1997, ISBN 978-0-679-45083-2
  • A Few Corrections. Random House Digital, Inc., 2001.
  • Darlington 's Fall: A Novel in Verse, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2002, ISBN 978-0-375-41148-9
  • The Art Student 's War Random House Digital, Inc., 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-27111-2

Essays

  • Penchants and Places, A. A. Knopf, New York 1995

As editor

  • The Norton Book of Ghost Stories, WW Norton & Company, New York 1994, ISBN 0-393-03564-6

Anthologies

  • The Saving Minutes. In: Dumbing down: essays on the strip mining of American culture. WW Norton & Company, 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-31723-7.
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