11 Facts About Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.

Edward Hirsch had a childhood involvement with poetry, which he later explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.

Edward Hirsch was a professor of English at Wayne State University.

Edward Hirsch is a well-known advocate for poetry whose essays have been published in the American Poetry Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

Edward Hirsch is the editor of Transforming Vision: Writers on Art, Theodore Roethke's Selected Poems and To a Nightingale .

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Edward Hirsch is the co-editor of A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations and The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology .

Edward Hirsch was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and a five-year MacArthur Fellowship in 1997.

Edward Hirsch received the William Riley Parker Prize from the Modern Language Association for the best scholarly essay in PMLA for the year 1991.

Edward Hirsch has received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.

Edward Hirsch is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Edward Hirsch's book, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, was a surprise bestseller and is widely taught throughout the country.