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Bart Midwood [1]

Listed as: 
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet, Spoken Word Artist
Public address: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York US
Email: 
midwood2001@yahoo.com
Bio: 

In an article in Esquire, Isaac Singer wrote
that Bart Midwood was "the first writer in English
to give the word humoristic freedom."

BOOKS OF FICTION:
"Bodkin" (Random House)
"Phantoms" (E.P. Dutton)
"Bennett's Angel" (British/American, Paris Review Editions)
"The Nativity" (Bel Esprit)
"The World In Pieces" (Permanent)

FICTION IN PERIODICALS: Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, TransAtlantic Review,
Dutton Review, Agni, Queen, Nagy Vilag

FILM: Narrative script and musical score, "End of the Dialog",
award-winning documentary about apartheid in South Africa.

STAGEPLAY PRODUCTIONS: St. Clemens, Judith Anderson. Storefront.

Sole and primary book reviewer for Esquire, late sixties and early seventies.

FELLOWSHIPS: Guggenheim, NEA, Iowa Writers' Workshop
LITERARY PRIZES: Aga Khan, Robert Frost.
MUSIC PRIZES: National Sinfonian ( composition, string quartet)

Born in Brooklyn New York, March 10, 1938, 9:01 pm.
Three grandparents born in Russia, one in Vienna.
Mother, Lily, born in Albany, New York.
Father, Charles, born on a cattle ranch
in either Brazil or Argentina --
in any case, near the border.

B.A. University of Miami, full music scholarship, double major:English/biology;
Graduate school, National Defense fellowship in humanities).

U.S. Army: 1961-7

Certified Master Piano Tuner by London College of Furniture and Design.

Resided and worked: New York, Florida, South Carolina, Iowa, California, Yucatan, England, China

Five children: Ramsay, Rebecca, Jacob, Sam, Flora.

Married since 1988 to Dr. Laura Melim Midwood, Esq., PhD, JD.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Brooklyn
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Website: 
https://www.bartmidwood.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Robert Frost Prize for Poetry

Aga Khan Prize for Humor

Guggenheim Fellowship for Literature

NEA Fellowship for Literature

National Sinfonian Award for Composition of String Quartet

What I'm reading now: 
Collected Stories by Somerset Maugham
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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