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Thomas Lux (Thomas Norman Lux) was born on 10 December, 1946 in Northampton, Massachusetts, is an American poet. Discover Thomas Lux's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Thomas Norman Lux |
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Poet, Professor |
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70 years old |
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Sagittarius |
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10 December, 1946 |
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10 December |
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Northampton, Massachusetts |
Date of death |
5 February, 2017 |
Died Place |
Atlanta, Georgia |
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United States
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Thomas Lux Height, Weight & Measurements
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Thomas Lux Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Thomas Lux (December 10, 1946 – February 5, 2017) was an American poet who held the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology and ran Georgia Tech's "Poetry @ Tech" program.
He wrote fourteen books of poetry.
Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school.
Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm.
Before his death, Lux edited (and wrote the Introduction to) Bill Knott's posthumous publication I Am Flying into Myself: Selected Poems 1960–2014 which appeared in February 2017.
Lux graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1970–1975.
His first book—Memory's Handgrenade—was published shortly after.
Lux was a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, where he taught for twenty-seven years, from 1975 until 2001.
He was also a core faculty member of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. Program for Writers.
A former Guggenheim Fellow and three times a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lux received, in 1995, the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, Split Horizons. In 2003, Lux was awarded an honorary doctorate of Letters from Emerson College.
In 1996 he was a visiting professor at University of California, Irvine.
His poems were featured in many notable anthologies, including American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006).
In 2012, Lux received the Robert Creeley Award.
At the time of his death in February 2017, Lux was the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he began teaching in 2001.
At Georgia Tech he ran their "Poetry at Tech" program, which included one of the best known poetry reading series in the country, along with community outreach classes and workshops.
Lux died of lung cancer at his home in Atlanta, Georgia on February 5, 2017, survived by his wife Jennifer Holley Lux and a daughter from a previous marriage, Claudia Lux.