Philip Graham (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Philip Graham (writer)

American novelist, short story writer, creative non-fiction author, memoirist, political satirist, professor, and editor

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1951

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Philip Graham (born August 26, 1951) is an American novelist, short story writer, creative non-fiction author, memoirist, political satirist, professor, and editor.
He is one of the founders, and the current editor-at-large, of the literary/arts journal, Ninth Letter, which won the MLA’s Best New Literary Journal Award in 2005.
He is a professor emeritus in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received three campus-wide teaching awards.
He has also taught in the low-residency MFA program of the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Additionally, he is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two Illinois Arts Council grants, and the William Peden Prize in Fiction from The Missouri Review, as well as fellowship residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo artists' colony. Graham was born in Brooklyn, New York City on August 26, 1951.
He received a B.A.
from Sarah Lawrence College in 1973, where he studied with Grace Paley, and received an M.A.
from City College/City University of New York in 1976, where he studied with Donald Barthelme and Frederic Tuten.