Literary Birthday – 11 July – Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Bobbie Louise Hawkins was born on 11 July 1930 and died on 4 May 2018.
Bobbie Louise Hawkins Quotes
- As an only child, I really put in a lot of time without anybody else around except for books, and I really believed that the world I read in books existed out there.
- Your mind gets on something and you just meander along with it. I don’t think that’s fiction. It’s all autobiography.
- People are absolutely willing to let a woman be a ‘muse‘, and that has to be the worst job description in the world. Being a muse means you sit someplace and watch this other person have all the fun.
- Nothing in my life ever happened that was as important to me as learning to read. (Goodreads)
Bobbie Louise Hawkins was an American short story writer, monologist, and poet. She wrote more than 20 books of poetry and prose. As part of the Beat Movement, many of her poems feature unconventional construction. She also received a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg invited her to begin a prose concentration in the writing program at Naropa University where she taught for 30 years until her retirement in 2010. She was married to the author Robert Creeley for 18 years. Read some of her writing in the Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins.
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by Amanda Patterson
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