Michael Blumenthal
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Michael Blumenthal

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Michael Blumenthal graduated from the Cornell Law School with a J.D. degree in 1974, after studying philosophy and economics at the State U. of New York at Binghamton. His eighth book of poems, NO HURRY: POEMS 2000-2012, was published by Etruscan Press in October, 2012. A graduate of Cornell Law School and formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard, he is the author of the memoir ALL MY MOTHERS AND FATHERS (Harper Collins, 2002), and of DUSTY ANGEL (BOA Editions, 1999). His novel WEINSTOCK AMONG THE DYING, which won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, has recently been re-issued in paperback, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, WHEN HISTORY ENTERS THE HOUSE, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the German, French and Hungarian, he practiced psychotherapy with Anglophone expatriates in Budapest for several years, and spends summers at his house in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. In May of 2007, he spent a month in South Africa working with orphaned infant chacma baboons at the C.A.R.E. foundation in Phalaborwa, an experience about which he has written for Natural History and The Washington Post Magazine, and which is the subject of his forthcoming book, "BECAUSE THEY NEEDED ME": THE INCREDIBLE STRUGGLE OF RITA MILJO TO SAVE THE BABOONS OF SOUTH AFRICA. He was the featured poet at The Power of Writing Journal Conference in Denver in June of 2008, and currently is a Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigration Clinic at The University of West Virginia College of Law. He can be reached at: www.michael-blumenthal.com
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