![]() He has written four personal essay collections - Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Poseidon-Simon & Schuster, 1989), which Robert Atwan, editor of the Best American Essays series, noted as one of the ten best essays since 1950, claiming that Lopate “had found a creative way to insert the old familiar essay into the contemporary world," Portrait of My Body (Doubleday-Anchor, 1996) and Portrait Inside My Head (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2013). Lopate is also an accomplished poet and novelist, film and literary critic, writer about and lover of New York City, and beloved professor and mentor. He is the author of the seminal To Show and To Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction (Free Press, 2013), and the editor of influential The Art of the Personal Essay (Anchor Books, 1994). Phillip Lopate is widely considered a master of the essay. ![]()
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