Phillip Lopate was born on 1943 and is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher.
14 Facts About Phillip Lopate
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Phillip Lopate is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.
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Phillip Lopate has taught creative writing and literature to undergraduate and graduate students at several institutions, including Bennington College, Fordham University, Cooper Union, the University of Houston, New York University, Columbia University School of the Arts, and The New School.
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Phillip Lopate is currently professor of Writing at Columbia University.
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Phillip Lopate held the Adams Chair at Hofstra University until 2011, where he was professor of English.
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Phillip Lopate has written for the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, European Travel and Life, Sidestreets of the World, and American Way.
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Phillip Lopate has written about architecture and urbanism for Metropolis, The New York Times, Double Take, Preservation, Cite, and 7 Days, where he wrote a bimonthly architectural column.
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Phillip Lopate has served as a committee member for the Municipal Art Society and as a consultant for Ric Burns' PBS documentary on the history of New York City.
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Phillip Lopate has written about movies for The New York Times, Vogue, Esquire, Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Cinemabook, Threepenny Review, Tikkun, American Film, The Normal School, and the anthology The Movie That Changed My Life, among others.
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Phillip Lopate edited a massive anthology of American film criticism from the silent era to present day, entitled American Movie Critics: From Silents Until Now, was published in March 2006 for Library of America.
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Phillip Lopate has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two New York Foundation for the Arts grants.
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Phillip Lopate received a Christopher Medal for Being With Children, the Texas Institute of Letters award for best non-fiction book of the year, and was a finalist for the Spielvogel-Diamonstein PEN Award for best essay book of the year.
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Phillip Lopate's anthology Writing New York received an honorable mention from the Municipal Art Society's Brendan Gill Award, and a citation from the New York Society Library.
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Phillip Lopate is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.