Albert Goldbarth: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born

January 31, 1948 (age 78) • Chicago • Illinois

Notable Works

“Adventures in Ancient Egypt” • “Arts & Sciences” • “Beyond” • “Comings Back” • “Coprolites” • “Different Fleshes” • “Everyday People” • “Great Topics of the World” • “Ink, Blood, Semen” • “Many Circles” • “Pieces of Payne” • “Saving Lives” • “The Gods” • “The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale” • “Who Gathered and Whispered Behind Me”

John Updike

John Updike

American author

default image

Reynolds Price

American writer

default image

John Gardner

American author

Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.

Jack Kerouac

American writer

default image

Tillie Olsen

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.

Alice Walker

American writer

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.

Wendell Berry

American author

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

American author

Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

American author, photographer, and film director

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

American author

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

default image

Ameen Rihani

Arab American author and political figure

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

Annie Dillard leans on a wooden desk inside her writing shed, surrounded by papers and books, with an open door revealing trees outside in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Annie Dillard

American writer

Thomas Merton, 1959

Thomas Merton

American writer

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American author and activist

Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein

American writer

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines