Daniel Mark Epstein

DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Spirits, two plays, textbooks, and a collection of memoirs and essays, Stars of Wonder, in which "The Case of Harry Houdini" appears. In 1977 he received the Prix de Rome in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1983 a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is writer-in-residence at Towson State University in Baltimore.

- The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 316). Ticknor & Fields.