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During his fifteen-year business career, Gioia wrote on his own time. And in 1992, he left the corporate world to write full time. He numbers among his many literary accomplishments three books of poetry—one of them an American Book Award winner—and the book of literary criticism Can Poetry Matter? named for his Atlantic Monthly essay which stimulated much discussion on the role of poetry in the modern world. Gioia also leads several poetry conferences and is a commentator for BBC Radio...
When Gioia finished school and began a business career in New York, he was faced with finding time to write outside of his eleven-hour work...
...Lowry could obviously portray accurately. Mr. Krupnik would always carry around a notebook with him to record what he called “the human scene.” His habit was one that was based on Lowry’s own experience. “I do usually write things down,” Lowry says, “and many of those observations find their ways into books sometimes years later...
Lowry cites the divorce that spurred her move back to Cambridge as the beginning of her writing career. “I always wanted to write,” she muses. “I went to Brown and majored in writing, but then I got sidetracked by an early marriage—I was 19—and I had four kids by the time I was 25.” As Lowry’s marriage began to end, however, she realized that she had to support herself. She published a short story in a magazine that...
...their names to name some of the characters in her book. “I don’t usually want the names of the minor characters to be too uncommon,” she says, “so I usually steal names from the kids who write to me—not someone’s whole name but I’ll take the first part of a name from one letter and the last from another...