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Jay Parini
American writer and academic (born 1948)
Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism.
He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, Herman Melville, and a novelized memoir about his road trip with Jorge Luis Borges.
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Early life
Parini was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and brought up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970 and was awarded a doctorate by the University of St. Andrews in 1975.[1]
Academia
He taught at Dartmouth College from 1975 to 1982,[1] and has taught since 1982 at Middlebury College, where he is the D.E.
Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing.[2]
In 1976, Parini co-founded the New England Review with Sydney Lea.[1] Parini was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowshipin 1992. He was the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University