Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir published by W.W. Norton & Co.
Honor Moore is the author of
The Bishopâs Daughter (2008), a memoir, that was simultaneously
released in paperback (May
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2009) with a reissue of her 1996 biography,
The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her
Granddaughter. The Bishop's Daughter was named an Editor's Choice by
the New York Times, a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times
and chosen by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good
Reads" recommended reading list. It was also selected as a finalist for
the National Book Critics Circle Award. In April 2009, Library of
America published Poems from the Women's Movement, an anthology edited
by Honor Moore.
She is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir, and her play
Mourning Pictures, was produced on Broadway and published in The New
Womenâs Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she
edited.
Moore has received awards in
poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The
New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for
the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In addition to Poems from the
Women's Movement, she is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for
the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book
of Russian Poems translated by Paul Schmidt and teaches in the graduate
writing programs at the New School. From 2005 to 2007, she was an
off-Broadway theatre critic for The New York Times. Visit her website.
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