ABOUT HONOR MOORE

Honor Moore is the award-winning author of three collections of poems, Red Shoes (2005), Darling (2001), and Memoir (1988). She is the author of the biography The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter (1996), which was a New York Times Notable Book and published in a new edition by W. W. Norton in 2009, and of the play Mourning Pictures (1974), produced on Broadway. She coedited The Stray Dog Cabaret, a collection of translations of the Russian Modernist poets by Paul Schmidt (2006), and edited Poems from the Women’s Movement (2009) and Amy Lowell: Selected Poems (2004), both for the Library of America. Since 2000, she has taught in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University School of the Arts, and from 2000 to 2006 served on the board of PEN American Center. She lives in New York City.

HONOR MOORE’S SUGGESTIONS
FOR FURTHER READING

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

The Lover by Marguerite Duras

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The Border of Truth by Victoria Redel

The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald

My Father and Myself by J. R. Ackerley

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