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Philip Furia

professor
Kenan Hall 1232 | 910.962.3321 | furiap@uncw.edu

Background

PhD, University of Iowa, 1970
MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop, 1970
MA, University of Chicago, 1966
BA, Oberlin College, 1965

Publications

The Songs of Hollywood, co-author Laurie Patterson (2010) America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley (2006) Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer (2003) Irving Berlin: A Life in Song (2001) Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist (1997) The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricist (1992) Pound's Cantos Declassified (1984)

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