Person · Open Library
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Picturing New York
- Hymns of St. Bridget
- Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)
- Song for Connie
- Invisible Oligarchs
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 48
- Total plays
- 150
Tags
spoken wordpoetry
Bill Berkson (born August 30, 1939) is an American poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. Born in New York on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the only child of Seymour Berkson, general manager of International News Service and later publisher of the New York Journal American, and the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert. He studied at Trinity School <a href="https://www.last.fm/m
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Mother
- Eleanor Lambert
- Occupation
- non-fiction writer
- Educated at
- Lawrenceville School
- Employer
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Image
- Bill Berkson.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1939-08-30
- date of death
- 2016-06-16
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Bill Berkson
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