Phillip Lopate
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Phillip Lopate (b. 1943) is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher.
[edit] Life
Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. After attending Columbia University and working with children for twelve years as a writer-in-the-schools, he taught creative writing and literature to graduate and undergraduate students at many universities, including Bennington College, Fordham University, Cooper Union, the University of Houston, New York University (NYU), and the Columbia University School of the Arts. He currently holds the Adams Chair at Hofstra University, where he is Professor of English. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]
[edit] Writings
Lopate is the author of three essay collections: Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body; two novels, Confessions of Summer and The Rug Merchant; two poetry collections, The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open and The Daily Round; as well as a memoir of his experiences working with the creative arts with children, Being With Children. This book came out of his association with the artists-in-the-school organization Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He has also edited numerous anthologies, including the recent American Movie Critics, and won many prizes and fellowships.
He writes about film, travel, architecture and urbanism for various publications, including The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Cinemabook, Threepenny Review, Doubletake, Tikkun, and American Film. A volume of his selected movie criticism, Totally Tenderly Tragically, was published in 1998.
