Deborah Tall

Quick Facts

Full Name	Deborah Tall
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1951(1951-03-16)
Age	73
Date Of Death	October 2006, Ithaca, Greece
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Deborah Tall Biography

Deborah Tall is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on March 16, 1951 in New York, United States.

Tall grew up in a middle class Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburbs. As a child she studied dance and piano. Her father was an engineer and her mother was a homemaker. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, intending to major in philosophy, but switched her major to English instead. She graduated in three years. During her final year, she took up with a visiting professor, Tom MacIntyre, and the two subsequently moved to Ireland one summer in the 1970s. They spent five years on the island of Inishbofin, off the west coast of Ireland. They lived among a very small island population, and the experience is chronicled in her book, Island of the White Cow. After her return to the United States, she attended Goddard College, earning an MFA in Writing. She met husband and fellow poet, David Weiss, while living in New York City. While at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, they met fellow writers Stephen Scully and Rosanna Warren. She has two daughters, Zoe and Clea.

In 2004, Tall was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer from which she died in 2006.

Deborah Tall Net Worth

Deborah Tall is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Deborah Tall 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Deborah Anne Tall (March 16, 1951 – October 19, 2006) was an American writer and poet. From 1982 until 2006, she was a professor of literature and writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal, The Seneca Review. She is the author of four books of poetry and three works of nonfiction and co-edited the anthology, The Poet’s Notebook, with David Weiss and Stephen Kuusisto. Her most recent book of poems, “Summons,” was chosen by Charles Simic to receive the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize and was published by Sarabande Books. Her memoir, “A Family of Strangers,” chronicles her search for her father’s missing relatives and her struggle to uncover the past her parents have tried to forget.

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