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A Memoir
by Mark DotyThis article relates to Dog Years
Mark Doty's seven books of
poetry and three books of
nonfiction prose have been
honored with distinctions
including the National Book
Critics Circle Award, the
PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
and, in the United Kingdom, the
T. S. Eliot Prize.
He has
received fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts,
the Ingram Merrill Foundation,
and the Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman Center for Scholars and
Writers at the New York Public
Library.
He is a professor at
the University of Houston and
lives in New York City.
This "beyond the book article" relates to Dog Years. It originally ran in March 2007 and has been updated for the April 2008 paperback edition. Go to magazine.
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