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Frederick Turner Biography

Frederick Turner is the Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was home-schooled as a kid by anthropologist parents while they were doing their research in Zambia, then studied at Oxford University for both his undergraduate and his graduate degrees. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kenyon College where he was editor of the Kenyon Review. He has taught at UTD from 1985 until now. Fred has published over thirty books, including epic poems, books on Shakespeare, science fiction, and many collections of poetry, criticism, and poetry in translation. He’s won several awards and prizes, including Hungary's highest literary honor and Poetry Magazine's highest prize, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize internationally dozens of times. Fred considers himself a poet in the tradition of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, and Goethe who saw their work as expressing all the voices and dreams of their culture, including its sciences, its other arts, its commerce and customs and communities and loves. For more on Frederick Turner’s work, check his website here.

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