Author: Edward Field
Profile: Edward Field is an American author and poet. He is Jewish. He was born on June 7, 1924 in Brooklyn in New York and grew up in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. In Lynbrook he played cello in the Field Family Trio which had a radio program weekly on WGBB Freeport. In World War II, Edward flew 25 missions over Germany and served in the 8th Air Force as navigator in heavy bombers. He met Alfred Chester at New York University, in 1946 travelled to Europe and focused seriously on his writing. In 1948 he returned to the United States.
Writing style: It was after an anthology was handed over to Edward Field by the Red Cross worker during World War that he began to write poetry.
Published Texts:
Poetry
1963 – Icarus
1963 – Stand Up, Friend, With Me
1967 – Variety Photoplays
1973 – Eskimo Songs and Stories
1977 – A Full Heart
1978 – Stars in My Eyes
1984 – The Lost, Dancing
1987 – New And Selected Poems
1992 – Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992
1998 – A Frieze for a Temple of Love
1998 – Magic Words
2007 – After The Fall: Poems Old and New
Fiction (with Neil Derrick)
1978 – The Potency Clinic
1982 – Die PotenzKlinik
1982 – Village
1987 – The Office
2000 – The Villagers
Non-fiction
2007 – The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag, and Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
2008 – Kabuli Days: Travels in Old Afghanistan
Anthologies and Editorial
1979 – A Geography of Poets
1992 – A New Geography of Poets
1990 – Editor, Head of a Sad Angel, Stories
1992 – Editor, Looking for Genet, Essays
2003 – Editor, Dancing with a Tiger, Selected Poems
Periodicals
Essays and poetry in Gay & Lesbian Review, The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, New York Review Books, Parnassus, Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Michigan Quarterly and Evergreen Review
Awards and Acknowledgements:
1963 – The prestigious Lamont Poetry Prize was awarded for his book, Stand Up. Friend, With Me
1963 – Guggenheim Fellowship
1992 – Received the Lambda Award for, Counting Myself Lucky, Selected Poems 1963-1992
1974 – Shelly Memorial Award (the documentary film for which he wrote the narration – Poetry Society of America)
1981 – Prix de Rome Prize (American Academy of Arts & Letters)
Academy Award for, To Be Alive (the documentary film for which he wrote the narration)
1993 – Lambda Literary Award
2005 – Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement from Publishing Triangle
2005 – W.H.Auden Award (Sheep Meadow Foundation)