Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive
NEH Summer Seminar June 12-30, 2017
Vassar College Project
Director: Dr. Bethany Hicok
Friday, June 16: Biography
Readings: Travisano, “Bishop and Biography” from the Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth
Bishop, edited by Cleghorn & Ellis (2014); Fountain and Brazeau, Remembering Elizabeth
Bishop, Megan Marshall, A Miracle for Breakfast. You should also be familiar with Lorrie
Goldensohn’s The Biography of a Poetry and Brett Millier’s, Life and the Memory of It, the first
full-length biography of Bishop.
Friday afternoon: Dr. Barbara Page will join us at 4:30 in the Rose Parlor (Main) to talk
about how the Bishop papers got to Vassar and the process of sorting through them; she
will also give us a brief tour of important Bishop sites at the College.
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