Alice Goodman

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Alice Goodman, American poet, was educated at Harvard where she studied English and American literature. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams, Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. Although she was raised as a Reform Jew in Minnesota, she is currently an ordained Anglican priest serving in England. Rev. Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic, however she withdrew from this project after a year. It is reported that she is now working with Peter Sellars on a version of The Consolation of Philosophy

She is married to the noted British poet Geoffrey Hill.

In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge.