Jay Parini

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Jay Parini (born 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels and poetry, biography and criticism.

He was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975. He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982. He has taught at Middlebury College since 1982. He is married to the writer and psychologist Devon Jersild. They have three sons.

He is a regular contributor to various journals and newspapers, including The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Guardian (U.K.). In 1976, he co-founded New England Review with Sydney Lea.

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Singing in Time (1972) poems
Theodore Roethke, an American Romantic (1979)
The Love Run (1980) novel
Richard Eberhart : A Celebration (1980) editor with Sydney Lea, Robin M. Barone
Anthracite Country (1982) poems
Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (1985) editor with Robert Pack and Sydney Lea
The Patch Boys (1986)novel
An Invitation to Poetry (1987)
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Short Stories (1987) editor with Robert Pack
A Vermont Christmas (1988)
Town Life (1988) poems
The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays (1989) editor with Robert Pack
The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year (1990)
Richard Eberhart, New and Selected Poems 1930 – 1990 (1990) editor
Writers On Writing (1991) with Robert Pack
Bay of Arrows (1992) novel
Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain (1992) editor
Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American Nature Poetry (1993) editor with Robert Pack
Columbia History of American Poetry (1994), editor
Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (1995), editor
John Steinbeck (1995)biography
American Identities: Contemporary Multicultural Voices (1996) editor with Robert Pack
Benjamin's Crossing (1996) novel
Touchstones : American Poets on a Favorite Poem (1996) editor with Robert Pack
Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Literature and Politics (1997) essays
Beyond "The Godfather" : Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience (1997) editor with A. Kenneth Ciongoli
House of Days (1998) poems
The Norton Book of American Autobiography (1998) editor
Introspections : American Poets on One of Their Own Poems (1998) editor with Robert Pack
Robert Frost: A Life (1999)
American Writers (2000) editor, yearly volumes
American Writers Classics I (2002), II (2004)
The Apprentice Lover (2002) novel
British Writers (2002) editor, yearly
Contemporary Poetry Of New England (2002) editor with Robert Pack
Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America (2002) with A. Kenneth Ciongoli
British Writers Classics (2003) editor
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. (2004) editor
World Writers in English (2003) editor
Anthony Quinn's Eye (2004) with Donald Kuspit and Tom Roberts
One Matchless Time : A Life of William Faulkner (2004)
The Art of Teaching (2005)
The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems (2005) poems
The Wadsworth Anthology Of Poetry (2005), editor