Jack Marshall (author)
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Jack Marshall | |
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| Born | February 25, 1936 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupations | Poet, writer |
Jack Marshall (born 1936)[1] is an American poet and author. He was born to an Iraqi father, and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage.[2]
Jack Marshall was born on February 25, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He was raised speaking Arabic in a Mizrahi Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture.[3] His father worked in the fabric industry.[4] He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighborhood.
Marshall attended Brooklyn College, where he studied literature.[4] The Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA) is where he attended night classes in poetry in 1960 with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz.[4][5]
Career and accolades
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn.[6]
He is the recipient of two Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.
Personal life
He has lived in El Cerrito, California since the early 2000s.[7]
