Slesinger, Warren

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SLESINGER, Warren

SLESINGER, Warren. American, b. 1933. Genres: Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: Poets-in-the-School Program, resident, Indiana, Delaware, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; Macmillan Co., NYC, member of sales staff, 1961-64; Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NYC, manager, 1961-68; D.C. Heath & Co., Lexington, MA, editor, 1969; College of Wooster, OH, assistant professor of English, 1969-75; University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, editor and market manager, 1976-81; University of Chicago Press, East Coast representative, 1981-86; University of South Carolina Press, senior editor, 1986-97; Oregon State University Press, senior editor, 19972000; University of South Carolina-Beaufort, adjunct professor, 2000-. Ingram-Merrill Foundation Grant, 1974; South Carolina Poetry Fellowship, 2002. Publications: Field with Figurations, 1970; Heartland II (anthology), 1975; With Some Justification, 1985; (ed.) The Whole Story: Editors on Fiction, 1994; Spreading the Word: Editors on Poetry, 2001; Warren Slesinger: Greatest Hits, 2002. Address: 2507 Brighton Ln, Beaufort, SC 29902-5944, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]