Teaching Composition with Literature: 101 Writing Assignments for College Instructors (7th Edition)

Gioia, Dana

 
9780321027481: Teaching Composition with Literature: 101 Writing Assignments for College Instructors (7th Edition)

Synopsis

1999 Teaching Composition with Literature: 101 Writing Assignments from College Instructors (P) by Dana Gioia & Patricia Wagner ***ISBN-13: 9780321027481 ***337 Pages

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About the Author

Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Dana Gioia attended Stanford University and did graduate work at Harvard, where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Fitzgerald. He left Harvard to attend Stanford Business School. For fifteen years he worked in New York for general Foods (eventually becoming a Vice President) while writing nights and weekends, In 1992 he became a full-time writer. Currently he lives in California. Gioia has published three books of poems, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award. He is also the author of Can Poetry Matter? (1992; reprinted 2002). He has edited a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction. A prolific critic and reviewer, he is also a frequent commentator on American culture for BBC Radio. He recently completed Nosferatu (2001), an opera libretto for composer Alva Henderson.

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