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Miriam Levine (born 1939) is an American memoirist, poet and novelist.[1] Levine was the first Poet Laureate of Arlington, Massachusetts.[2]

Biography

Levine was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Gertrude and Joseph Levine.[3] She spent her early years in Passaic, New Jersey and earned a BA and MA in Comparative Literature from Boston University and a PhD in British Literature from Tufts University.[4]

Levine was a professor at Framingham State University; and, before that, taught at Emerson College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and Northeastern University.[5][4]

Awards

Levine, winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize,[6] is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.[7] Awarded a Pushcart Prize,[8] she was a resident fellow at Yaddo;[8] Le Chateau de Lavigny International Writers' Colony, Switzerland;[9] and Millay Colony for the Arts.[10]

Works

• Saving Daylight (2019)[11]
• The Dark Opens (2008)[11]
• In Paterson: a Novel (2002)[11]
• Devotion (1993)[11]
• A Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England (1984)[11]
• The Graves of Delawanna (1981)[11]
• To Know We Are Living (1976)[11]
• Friends Dreaming (1974)[11]

References

External links

• Miriam Levine’s website

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