Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate is an essayist, novelist and poet. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including three personal essay collections – Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre and Portrait of My Body; a critical study – Notes on Sontag; and To Show and to Tell: the Craft of Literary Nonfiction. He directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.