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Background
PhD, University
of Iowa, 1970
MFA, Iowa Writers Workshop,
1970
MA, University of Chicago, 1966
BA, Oberlin College, 1965
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On
teaching
Phil Furia teaches courses in creative
nonfiction; writing biography; the art of the song lyric; forms
of poetry, fiction, and dramatic writing; modern American poetry;
the jazz age: literature, art, and music in New York, 1910-1940;
Americans in Paris: Stein, Hemingway, Gershwin and other figures
of the 1920s; American popular song lyrics, 1900-1950; the Broadway
and Hollywood musical; the history of English lyric poetry and song.
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Publications
Skylark: The Life
and Times of Johnny Mercer
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Ira Gershwin: The
Art of the Lyricist
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Irving Berlin: A Life
in Song
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The Poets of Tin Pan
Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricist
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