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Phillip Lopate
was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943, and received
a bachelor's degree at Columbia in 1964, and a doctorate
at Union Graduate School in 1979. He is the author of
three essay collections: Bachelorhood (Little, Brown,
1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Simon & Schuster,
1989), and Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996);
two novels, Confessions of Summer (Doubleday, 1979)
and The Rug Merchant (Viking, 1987); two poetry collections,
The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open (Sun Press,
1972) and The Daily Round (Sun Press, 1976); and a memoir
of his teaching experiences, Being With Children (Doubleday,
1975). He has edited the following anthologies: The
Art of the Personal Essay (Doubleday-Anchor, 1994),
Writing New York (The Library of America, 1998), Journal
of a Living Experiment (Teachers & Writers Press,
1979), and a series collecting the best essays of the
year, The Anchor Essay Annual (Anchor, 1997-9). The
Phillip Lopate Reader will be published by Basic Books
in Fall, 2003.
His essays, fiction and poetry
have appeared in The Best American Short
Stories (1974), The Best American Essays (1987), several
Pushcart Prize
annuals, the anthologies Congregation and Testimony,
and The Paris Review,
Harper's, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Harvard
Educational Review,
The New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, The Journal
of Contemporary
Fiction, Double Take, and others.
He has written about movies
for The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Film
Comment, Film Quarterly, Cinemabook, Threepenny Review,
Tikkun, American
Film, and the anthology The Movie That Changed My Life,
among others. A
volume of his selected movie criticism, Totally Tenderly
Tragically, was
published by Doubleday-Anchor in 1998. He is currently
editing a massive
anthology of American film criticism, from the silent
era to today, for
Harcourt-Brace.
His writings about architecture
and urbanism have appeared in Metropolis, The New York
Times, Double Take, Preservation, Cite and 7 Days, where
he wrote a bimonthly architectural column. He was also
a recipient of a Revson
Fellowship in Urban Studies at Columbia, and served
as a committee-member for
the Municipal Art Society and as a consultant for Ric
Burns' PBS documentary
on the history of New York City. He is currently finishing
a book on the New
York waterfront, to be published in 2003.
He has written on travel for
the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, Conde Nast
Traveler, European Travel and Life, Sidestreets of the
World, and American Airlines Magazine.
He has been awarded a John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library
Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National
Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation
for the Arts grants. He also received a Christopher
medal for Being With Children, the Texas Institute of
Letters award for best non-fiction book of the year
(Bachelorhood),and was a finalist for the PEN Diamondston-Spielvogel
Award for best essay book of the year (Portrait of My
Body). His anthology Writing New York received an honorable
mention from the Municipal Art Society's Brendan Gill
Award, and a citation from the New York Society Library.
After working with children
for twelve years as a writer-in-the-schools, he taught
creative writing and literature to graduate and undergraduate
students at Fordham, Cooper Union, The University of
Houston, Columbia University and New York University.
He was also a Lila Wallace Foundation writer-in-residence.
He currently holds the Adams Chair at Hofstra University,
where he is Professor of English, and also teaches in
the Bennington College MFA program.
Phillip Lopate
402 Sackett Street
Brooklyn, New York 11231
Tel: (718) 596-9585
Fax: (718) 596-9377
Email: plopate@aol.com
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