Nicholas Christopher

Professor

Nicholas Christopher received his B.A. from Harvard College. He is the author of fourteen books: five novels, The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, and The Bestiary, which will be published in the spring; eight books of poetry, On Tour with Rita, A Short History of the Island of Butterflies, Desperate Characters: A Novella in Verse, In the Year of the Comet, 5° & Other Poems, The Creation of the Night Sky, Atomic Field: Two Poems, and Crossing the Equator: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2004; and a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American City, which was reissued in a new and expanded edition in 2006. He has also edited two anthologies of contemporary American poetry, Under 35 and Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975. His work has been widely translated and published abroad, and he has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books. He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America.