William Baer

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He is the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, an NEA Fellowship for fiction, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award. Dr. Baer was the founding editor and publisher of The Formalist (1990-2004). He earned his B.A. from Rutgers University, an M.A. in English from New York University, an M.A. in Writing from The Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He is the author of twelve books, including "Borges" and Other Sonnets; Writing Metrical Poetry; Luis de Camoes: Selected Sonnets; Conversations with Derek Walcott; and Elia Kazan: Interviews. His award-winning play^{[citations needed]} The Amistad Case was produced at the Dayton Playhouse, and his bio-drama Guiteau was performed at the Metropolitan Theater of New York. He has also received an ATHE Development Award and the James K. Wilson Playwriting Award. He also received brief fame^{[citations needed]} when his obituary was prematurely published by the New York Times due to a hoax by his students.