Philip Booth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Philip Booth, like many other contemporary poets, has spent much of his career in an academic atmosphere. He took a baccalaureate degree at Dartmouth College in 1947 and taught at Bowdoin College in Maine in 1949, then dropped out of teaching for four years to write as a novelist. After deciding that he was better as a writer of poetry than of fiction, he returned to it and earned his master’s degree at Syracuse University, where he served for the next twenty-five years in the creative writing program. He was also a staff member for poetry workshops at Tufts University and the...
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