Phillip Lopate
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Phillip Lopate
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| Born |
November 16, 1943 Brooklyn, New York |
| Occupation | film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education |
Columbia University, B.A., 1964 Union Institute & University, PhD, 1979. |
| Genre | fictional prose, essay, poetry, literary criticism |
| Notable works | Being With Children |
| Relatives | Leonard Lopate (brother) |
Phillip Lopate (born 1943) is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BA degree from Columbia University in 1964 and received his doctorate from Union Institute & University in 1979.
Lopate is the younger brother of Leonard Lopate.
His sister Joan was the art department coordinator for Broadway Danny Rose.
Lopate worked as a writer-in-the-schools for twelve years and his memoir Being With Children came out of his association with the artists-in-the-school organization Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Lopate coordinated T&W's first project (at Manhattan's P.S. 75), the model for which led to similar programs in all 50 states.
He has taught creative writing and literature to undergraduate and graduate students at several institutions, including Bennington College, Fordham University, Cooper Union, the University of Houston, New York University (NYU), Columbia University School of the Arts, and The New School. He is currently professor of writing at Columbia University. He held the Adams Chair at Hofstra University until 2011, where he was Professor of English.
Lopate's essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared in several Pushcart Prize annuals, the anthologies Congregation and Testimony, and The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Harvard Educational Review, The New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, The Journal of Contemporary Fiction, Double Take, and Creative Nonfiction, among others.
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