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  <name><![CDATA[Phillip Lopate]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Phillip Lopate is the author of three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, and a collection of his movie criticism. He has edited the following anthologies, and his essays, fiction, poetry, film and architectural criticism have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Paris Review, Harper's, Vogue, Esquire, New York Times, Harvard Educational Review, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other periodicals and anthologies. He has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants. After working with children for twelve years as a writer in the schools, he taught creative writing and literature at Fordham, Cooper Union, University of Houston, and New York University. He currently holds the John Cranford Adams Chair at HofstraUniversity, and also teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School and Bennington.&quot;]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>01/01/1943</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Portrait of My Body]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Writing New York: A Literary Anthology]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[American Movie Critics: From the Silents Until Now]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Getting Personal: Selected Writings]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Totally, Tenderly, Tragically]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Against Joie de Vivre]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bachelorhood: Tales of the Metropolis]]></title>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Notes on Sontag]]></title>
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