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Thomas Lynch
April 9, 2001
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Thomas
Lynch is an essayist, poet and funeral director. His most recent
book, released in June of 2005, is Booking Passage: We
Irish and Americans. Other more recent books include: The
Undertaking,
Still Life in Milford, and Bodies in Motion and
at Rest. He
published his first volume of poetry, Skating with Heather
Grace, in 1987. Following this unique collection of poems,
he published his next volume of poetry Grimalkin & Other
Poems. Lynch is regularly featured on the op-ed page of The
New York Times, The Boston Globe and The
Times of London, as
well as in the pages of Harper's. He has appeared on C-SPAN,
MSNBC, the NBC Today program and the PBS series, On Our
Own Terms.
His collection of essays, The Undertaking—Life Studies
from the Dismal Trade, won the Heartland Prize for non-fiction,
The American Book Award, and was a Finalist for the National
Book Award. It has been translated into seven languages.
A second collection of essays, Bodies in Motion and
at Rest, won The Great Lakes Book Award. He is the recipient
of grants
and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The
Michigan Council for the Arts, The Michigan Library Association,
The Writers Voice Project, The National Book Foundation,
The Arvon Foundation in Great Britain and The Irish Arts
Council.
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Lynch
is an Adjunct Professor in the graduate creative writing program
at the University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He lives in Milford, Michigan where,
for the past twenty-five years, he has been the funeral director
of Lynch & Sons funeral home. He also keeps an ancestral
cottage in West Clare, Ireland.
For more information on Thomas Lynch, please visit his website:
http://www.thomaslynch.com/index.html
To hear Lynch read from his own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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