Jack Marshall (author)
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Jack Marshall (born 1936 in Brooklyn, United States) is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage. [1]
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[edit] Upbringing
He grew up speaking Arabic in a Sephardic Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arabic and Jewish culture.[2] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighbourhood.
[edit] Career and accolades
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn. [3] He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2008.
[edit] Personal life
Jack discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he used to attend night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[4]He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he is interested in.
He currently resides in Bay Area.
[edit] Works
- From Baghdad to Brooklyn (2005)
- Gorgeous Chaos: New and Selected Poems (1965-2001)
- Sesame (1993)
- Millennium Fever: Poems
