14 Facts About Edward McCrorie

Edward McCrorie is a Professor Emeritus of English at Providence College in Providence, RI.

Edward McCrorie is the author of six collections of poetry and three verse translations of epics by Virgil and Homer.

Edward McCrorie was educated in local schools in Rhode Island and spent two and one half years at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick Neck, Rhode Island.

Edward McCrorie then resumed his education at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduating in 1962, and a masters of arts in English from Villanova University in 1964.

Edward McCrorie began his career as an English Professor at Providence College in September 1964, and continued graduate work at Brown University, earning the Ph.

Edward McCrorie had married his first wife, Therese McNeil of Central Falls, Rhode Island in the summer of 1959.

Edward McCrorie began publishing short poems in many literary journals in 1969 and saw his first book into print, After a Cremation, in 1974.

Edward McCrorie traveled widely and wrote more in Costa Rica, Europe and China, leading to the publication of his second book of poems, Needle Man, in 1999, with BrickHouse Books Press.

Edward McCrorie was promoted through the ranks at Providence College as a result primarily of his poetry and translations.

Edward McCrorie was greatly helped in all this by his second marriage.

Edward McCrorie's League of Nations was a crowning achievement in Paris, 1919.

Edward McCrorie has often presented the work to appreciative audiences, especially at Brown University, and the translation has been highly recommended in reviews.

Edward McCrorie finished a first draft after four years and, with help from Jewish friends like Catherine Hiller and retired Rabbi David Kline, himself a translator of Genesis, McCrorie anticipated completion of the final draft in 2017.

Now with a fairly good picture of Homo sapiens' evolution over the past 200,000 years, often at the cost of many species' extinction, Edward McCrorie began a series of poems about that evolution, hoping they would lead eventually to a book.