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Charles Wright
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Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, in 1935. He was educated
at Davidson College and, after four years in the army, attended
the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he received
his M.F.A. He served as a Fulbright lecturer at the University
of Rome and the University of Padua, and has lectured at the University
of Iowa, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the University
of California at Irvine.
Mr. Wright's previous books of poetry included The Grave of the Right Hand(1970), Hard Freight (1973), Bloodlines (1975). China Trace (1977), The Southern Cross (1981), Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1982), The Other Side of the River (1984), Zone Journals (1988). The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 (1990), and Chickamauga (1995).
Mr. Wright has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant
(1974), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975), the Academv of American
Poets' Edgar Allan Poe Award (1976) an Academy Institute grant
from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1977),
the National Book Award in Poetry (1983), and the Brandeis Creative
Arts Citation for Poetry (1987). Mr. Wright has also been awarded
the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet
Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Things. Most recently, he won the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall
Poetry Prize (1996) for Chickamauga.
Mr. Wright is a professor of English at the University of Virginia
at Charlottesville, where he lives with his family. |
