Professor
Alan Shapiro
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Writer (poet, critic, memoirist); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2003
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor. Poet, critic, translator, and author. Wrote eight books of poems including After the Digging, The Courtesy, Happy Hour, Mixed Company, The Dead Alive and Busy, and Song and Dance. Author of three books of prose, In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination, The Last Happy Occasion, and Vigil. Recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award.
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