Wendy Lang Salinger (born February 3, 1947) is an American poet and memoirist. A 1981 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote the 1980 poetry collection Folly River and the 2006 memoir Listen.
Wendy Salinger | |
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| Born | February 3, 1947 Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
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| Employer | College of Charleston |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (1981) |
Biography
editWendy Lang Salinger was born on February 3, 1947, in Kansas City, Kansas,[1] and moved eastward to Durham, North Carolina when she was a young child.[2] She was the daughter of Herman Salinger, who was chair of the Duke University departments of German and comparative literature, and Marion Casting Salinger, who was a researcher on American and Canadian forestry resources and a program administrator at Duke.[3][4] She attended Charles E. Jordan High School,[5] where she served as yearbook copy-editor[6] and wrote articles for the The Herald-Sun.[7][8][9] She then obtained her BA in English in 1969 from Duke University, where her poems were published for the first time in a literary magazine and where she was part of Phi Beta Kappa.[2][10] In 1971, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.[1][11]
In the 1970s, she moved to Folly Beach, South Carolina,[5] and she became a visiting and assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, as well as a researcher, writer, and visiting artist at the South Carolina Arts Commission.[1] She was also a resident poet at the Virginia Commission for the Arts and Humanities.[1] She won the 1980 National Poetry Series Open Competition for her poetry collection Folly River,[12] published as part of the National Poetry Series in 1980[13] and inspired by her time in Folly Beach.[14] In 1981, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry.[15] She was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1982, 1983, and 1985.[16] She also did poetry readings in University of South Carolina Beaufort and the Surfside Beach Branch Library.[17][10]
In 1983, Richard Wilbur's Creation, an essay collection she edited, was published by University of Michigan Press.[18][19] In 1988, she was a participant and workshop director at the first Carolina Connections in Charleston, South Carolina.[20] She organized writing workshops for New York City Department of Education high school students as the decades-long director of the Schools Project at 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center.[19][21]
She got her fourth MacDowell fellowship in 2003, where she worked on the novel Victor Dying,[16] before it became the memoir Listen,[22] published in 2006.[19]
Works
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edit- ^ a b c d Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1981. p. 95.
- ^ a b Starr, William W. (June 11, 1980). "Years In South". The State. pp. B1, B16 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Herman Salinger papers, 1909-1982". Archives & Manuscripts at Duke University Libraries. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ "Marion Salinger Obituary (1917 - 2017) - Durham, NC - The Herald Sun". Legacy.com. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ a b "'Architectural' Poet Set For Publication". The Herald-Sun. July 15, 1979. pp. 3D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Deb Data". The Durham Sun. October 7, 1965. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Salinger, Wendy (March 6, 1965). "Little Universes Exist At JHS". The Herald-Sun. pp. 6A – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Salinger, Wendy (April 3, 1965). "Music Takes Spotlight". The Herald-Sun. pp. 5A – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Salinger, Wendy (April 17, 1965). "Religion For Foremost In April". The Herald-Sun. pp. 5A – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Wendy Salinger to read poems". The Beaufort Gazette. January 23, 1981. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wendy Salinger". WritersReps.com. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ a b Linton, Virginia (July 8, 1980). "Poetry book is unique". The Island Packet. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Clothier, Peter (June 15, 1980). "in verse". The Los Angeles Times. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b W.W.S. (June 11, 1980). "Poems Promise Bright Career". The State. pp. B1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Wendy Salinger". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ a b "Wendy Salinger - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ "Salinger to appear at Surfside library". Sun-News. January 24, 1980. pp. 7-C – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Back Matter". The Iowa Review. 17 (1). 1987. ISSN 0021-065X – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b c "Wendy Salinger". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ "Academy of Authors to award $1,600 grant". The State. May 29, 1988. pp. 5-F – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Haberman, Clyde (February 20, 1996). "Their Loss Of Respect Starts at Home". The New York Times. pp. B1 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Salinger, Wendy; Beverly-Whittemore, Miranda (March 21, 2007). "Wendy Salinger & Miranda Beverly-Whittemore". beatrice.com (Interview). Interviewed by Ron Hogan. Retrieved September 21, 2024.
- ^ Eidenier, Elon G. (August 10, 1980). "Verse Writing Is Departure From Ordinary". The Herald-Sun. pp. 3D – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Moore, Lisa (February 22, 1981). "Whither poetry? These new collections sing". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. pp. 8E – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Black, Star (May 18, 1980). "How Nice Her Poetry Has Been Discovered'". Omaha World-Herald. United Press International. p. 36 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Pritchard, William (July 6, 1980). "POETS CHOSEN BY POETS". New York Times. pp. A1 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Kirchwey, Karl (August 24, 2006). "Poetic memoir tells of tern loyalty to an abusive father". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. E04 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Boyd, Therese (September 3, 2006). "A well-crafted recollection of a painful past". News and Record. pp. H5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Heller, Amanda (May 7, 2006). "SHORT TAKES: [THIRD Edition]". Boston Globe. pp. E5 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Listen". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 253, no. 4. January 23, 2006. pp. 196–197 – via ProQuest.