Awards & Winners

Robert Polito

Date of Birth 27-October-1951
Place of Birth Boston
(Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 617, Area code 857)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Critic, Poet
Robert Polito is an American academic, critic and poet. He has been Director of the Writing Program at The New School since 1992. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award and an Edgar Award for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. In 2013, Polito was named the president of the Poetry Foundation.

Awards by Robert Polito

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Polito.

1996


Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical
Honored for : Savage Art

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Savage Art

1995


National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography
Honored for : Savage Art

Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography Savage Art