11 Facts About Liam Rector

Liam Rector had administered literary programs at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Liam Rector was the founder of the graduate Writing Seminars program at Bennington College.

Liam Rector was a wonderful man and a terrific poet and teacher.

Liam Rector read last, I was bored and tired, and he blew the doors off the place.

Liam Rector just exuded a poetic gravitas, and I know few poets who read with such grace and class.

Liam Rector was educated at various undergraduate programs but did not receive a bachelor's degree; he did receive master's degrees in writing from Johns Hopkins University and in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Liam Rector was the author of volumes of poetry including The Executive Director of the Fallen World, American Prodigal, and The Sorrow of Architecture.

Liam Rector was married three times, with the first two marriages ending in divorce; he had a daughter from his second marriage.

Liam Rector founded and directed the graduate writing seminars at Bennington College in Vermont and taught at Columbia University, The New School, and Emerson College.

Liam Rector committed suicide by gunshot in his Greenwich Village apartment on August 15,2007, at the age of 57.

Liam Rector had incurred a series of health problems in his last years, including heart disease and cancer, and mentioned this in his suicide note.