John Yau

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Full Name	John Yau
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Jun 5, 1950(1950-06-05)
Age	74
Country	United States
Birth City	Lynn
Horoscope	Gemini

John Yau Biography

John Yau is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on June 5, 1950 in Lynn, United States. Based on Matthew Rohrer’s biography about Yau of Poets & Writers Magazine, Yau’s parents moved to Boston after they emigrated to China around 1949. His father was an accountant. As a youngster, Yau was close to the son of Chinese-born abstract artist John Way. In the 1960s, Yau experienced “a lot of anti-war poetry readings in Boston [and] so I’d heard Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, people like that. I don’t know – Robert Kelly (poet) just seemed a different kind of poet. Mysterious, in a way. He was interested in the occult, in gnosticism and abstract art – things that had a particular appeal to me.” According to Rohrer Yau’s choice to go to Bard College was motivated by his admiration for Kelly.

John Yau is descendant of the Zhang family from Nanxun, China, as mentioned in Nelson and Laurence Chang’s book “The Zhangs of Nanxun” (2010). Yau’s maternal grandfather was the scientist Zhang Naiyan (1894-1958) had the distinction of having a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Geneva. In 1927 at the age 33, he was the first president of the University of Nanjing and, in 1933, he was named China’s Ambassador to Belgium. As is evident on the family tree found in the Chang and Chang book Zhang Naiyan’s father, was an educator. Zhang Bianqun (1875-1922) was the older cousin of Zhang Jing Jiang (Zhang Renjie) (1877-1950) who were part of the East Branch of the family. In the South Family that is part of the Zhang family comprises Zhang Shiming (1871-1928) and the art historian Zhang Congyu (1914-1963) as well as the the writer Nelson Chang (1923-) and his son Laurence Chang (1965-).

Yau was the editor of the Arts at The Brooklyn Rail, from 2007 until 2011, but he left for the editorial directorship of an online publication called Hyperallergic Weekend. He also has an independent press called Black Square Editions, which publishes poetry, translations and fiction. Yau is currently teaching art history and critical theory at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.

John Yau Net Worth

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

John Yau (born June 5 1950) is a famous American poetry and criticism writer, who lives within New York City. He earned his B.A. in 1972 from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. in 1972 from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has written more than 50 poetry books as well as artists’ publications as well as fiction and art criticism.

Yau has been honored with grants and awards from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, the Academy of American Poets (Lavan Award), The American Poetry Review (Jerome Shestack Award) The Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts The General Electric Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation along with The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2002). In the year 2018, Yau was named a winner from the Jackson Poetry Prize.

Yau’s most recent books are “Egyptian Sonnets” (Rain Taxi, 2012), Exhibits (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (Distributed Art Publishers, 2009), and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2006). His collections of poetry include Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin, 2006), Ing Grish, with Paintings by Thomas Nozkowski (Saturnalia, 2005),Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996), Berlin Diptychon with Photographs by Bill Barrette (Timken, 1995), Edificio Sayonara (Black Sparrow, 1992),Corpse and Mirror (Holt & Rinehardt, 1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery, and Broken Off by The Music (Burning Deck, 1981). Artists’ books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology.

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