Professor
Philip Levine
(
–
)
1928
2015
New York University
;
New York, NY
Writer (poet); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2002
Poet; Professor of English. Has woven a tapestry of history, family, memory and invention in an effort to raise the commonplace to the mythic in the course of a half-century-long career. Books include The Simple Truth, The Bread of Time, What Work Is and Sweet Will.
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