Phillip Lopate

PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of two novels, The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer, two poetry books, The Daily Round and The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay Open, a collection of personal essays, Bachelorhood, and a nonfiction book, Being with Children. He is currently writing a new volume of essays, tentatively titled Against Joie de Vivre. He teaches one semester at the University of Houston and lives the rest of the year in New York City.

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