Anne Carson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Robert John Carson and Margaret Katharine Ryerson Carson. She became intrigued by the classics while in high school. She studied the Greek language in her last year of high school and continued her classical studies at the University of Toronto, where she earned a B.A. in 1974, an M.A. in 1975, and a Ph.D. in 1980. The University of St. Andrews, located in Fife, Scotland, awarded her a diploma in classics in 1976. Carson taught at the University of Calgary from 1979 to 1980. In 1980 she began her tenure at Princeton University. Carson...
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