Awards & Winners

Leonard Nathan

Date of Birth 08-November-1924
Place of Birth El Monte
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, Area code 626)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Leonard E. Nathan
Profession Poet, Critic, Professor
Dr. Leonard E. Nathan, was an American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991. Born in El Monte, California, Nathan earned a bachelor's degree in English at UC Berkeley in 1950, a master's degree in English in 1952 and a Ph.D. in 1961. He was then hired as a lecturer in UC Berkeley's Department of Speech, and was promoted to associate professor in 1965 and to professor in 1968. Among other honors, he received the National Institute of Arts and Letters prize for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Phelan Award for Narrative Poetry, and three silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California, including one for The Potato Eaters. His poems were also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New England Review and The Georgia Review, among other publications.

Awards by Leonard Nathan

Check all the awards nominated and won by Leonard Nathan.

1976


Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
(Poetry)

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
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