Office Hours:
Wednesday: 2:00- 4:30pm and by appointment

Jay Parini
D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing
Axinn Center at Starr Library 203
Phone: 802.443.5042
Email: parini@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Director of Creative Writing Program
A.B., Lafayette College; B. Phil., Ph.D., University of St. Andrew

BOOKS

Singing in Time. Dundee (Scotland): J.W.B. Laing, 1972.  (poems)

Theodore Roethke:  An American Romantic.  Amherst, MA:  University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. (criticism)

The Love Run.  Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1980. (novel)

Anthracite Country.  New York: Random House, 1982. (poems)

The Patch Boys.  New York: Henry Holt, 1986. (novel)

An Invitation to Poetry.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1987. (textbook)

Town Life.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1988. (poems)

The Last Station. New York: Henry Holt, 1990. (novel)

Bay of Arrows.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1992. (novel)

Columbia History of American Poetry, editor, with Brett Millier.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1994.

Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (1995), editor.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1995.

John Steinbeck:  A Biography.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1995.

Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain, editor.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1996. (criticism)

Benjamin's Crossing.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1996. (novel)

Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Literature and Politics.  New York:  Columbia University Press,, 1997. (criticism)

Beyond "The Godfather" : Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience, editor, with A. Kenneth Ciongoli.  Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1997.

House of Days.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1998. (poems)

The Norton Book of American Autobiography, editor.  New York:  W.W. Norton, 1998.

Robert Frost: A Life.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1999.

The Apprentice Lover.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2002. (novel)

Passage to Liberty: The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America, with A. Kenneth Ciongoli.  New York:  Random House, 1992.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004) – four volumes, editor.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2004.

World Writers in English, editor. New York:  Scribner, 2004.

One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner.  New York:  HarperCollins, 2004.

The Art of Teaching.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2005.

The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems.  New York:  Braziller, 2005.

The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry, editor.  Boston:  Wadsworth, 2005.

Why Poetry Matters.  New Haven, CT:  Yale  University Press, 2008. (criticism)

Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America.  New York:  Doubleday, 2008. (criticism)

Last Steps:  Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy, editor.  London and New York:  Penguin, 2009.