Robert Polito

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Full Name	Robert Polito
Occupation	Literary Critic
Date Of Birth	Oct 27, 1951(1951-10-27)
Age	73
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Libra

Robert Polito Biography

Robert Polito is one of the most popular and richest Literary Critic who was born on October 27, 1951 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He has edited several books, including David Goodis: Five Noir Novels from the 1940s and 50s (2012), Farber on Film, The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber (2009), Kenneth Fearing (2002), Kenneth Fearing (2003), Kenneth Fearing (2002), Kenneth Fearing (2003), Kenneth Fearing (2002), Kenneth Fearing (2002), Kenneth Fearing (2002), Kenneth Fearing (2003), Kenneth Fearing (2002), The Everyman Dashiell Hammett (1996), Crime Novels American Noir of The 1950s (1996), Crime Novels, American Noir of The 1950s (1996), Crime Novels –American Noir of the 1950s (1996), Crime Novels (2005), Crime Novels American Noir of American Noir of The 1950s (1996), and Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988).

Polito’s work was selected for Best American Poetry (1992), Best American Essays (2006) and Best American Movie Writing (2001). His essays have been published in numerous anthologies and catalogs including Patricia Patterson: Here and there, Back and Forth (2012); Bob Dylan’s American Journey (2008); The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan (2006); Poems that Changed America: HOWL Fifty years Later (2006); Studio A; The Bob Dylan Reader (2004). This Is Pop: The Search for the Elusive at Experience Music Project (2003). Manny Farber, About Face (2003). BOMB: Speak Fiction and Poetry (1998).

His critical writing includes A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover (1995) and At the Titan’s Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron’s Poetry (1987), as well as many essays, articles, and reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Harpers, Bookforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Black Clock, AGNI, Paste, The Gettysburg Review, PEN America, BOMB, LIT, Mississippi Review, Open City, Boston Globe, Artforum, Village Voice, Verse, Pequod, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Review, and the Poetry Foundation. From 2004–2006 Polito wrote a column for Bookforum, “Shoot the Piano Player,” where he covered noir in literature, film, and visual art.

Savage Art (1995), Polito’s biography of American noir novelist Jim Thompson, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

Polito was the Assistant Director of New York University’s Graduate Writing Program. In 1992, he became the Director and Chair of New School’s Humanities Department. The Graduate Program in Creative Writing was established at the New School by Polito in 1996. It focuses on poetry, fiction, and writing for young adults. From 1996 to 2013, he was the Director of the Graduate Writing Program. He also taught literature seminars and workshops in poetry and nonfiction writing. In 2013, he moved to Chicago as the President of the Poetry Foundation.

Robert Polito Net Worth

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

Polito was born in Boston on October 27, 1951. His father was the supervisor of the South Station Post Office. Polito was a graduate of Boston College High School, and Boston College where he was the Features Editor for The Heights college newspaper. He also edited and designed Stylus, the Boston College literary journal. Wingwing was an alternative campus magazine. George Frazier, a Boston Globe columnist, said that Polito’s Stylus issue was “the most sophisticated and subtle undergraduate literary journal I have ever seen.” In 1981, he received his MA and PhD in English and American Literature and Language at Harvard. He was a specialist in English Renaissance, Latin poetry and Romantic poetry as well as modern poetry and fiction. His thesis, At the Titan’s Breakfast, Three Essays on Byron’s poetry, was published in 1987 in the Garland Routledge series, Harvard Dissertations in English Literature.

He wrote articles on literature and popular music from 1983 to 1988 for The Boston Phoenix. This included articles about Elizabeth Bishop and Lou Reed, Jim Thompson and the Turbines.

Polito taught at Harvard, Wellesley College, and New York University, before joining the faculty of the New School in 1992. He was the Holloway Visiting Poet at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999.

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Polito observed that “We live at a lucky moment for poetry, when there are so many surprising poets across generations, cultures and styles–and this situation is one of the powerful legacies of Poetry [magazine].” He appointed Don Share as the new editor of Poetry, and Cassie Mayer as the new Director of Digital Programs.

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Robert Ranked on the list of most popular Literary Critic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robert Polito celebrates birthday on October 27 of every year.

The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, he received the Arts Council Alumni Award from Boston College in 2013, for his career as a poet, writer, educator, and arts administrator. He has lectured and given readings widely across America, and also in France, Italy, England, and China.