Jack Marshall (born 1936 in Brooklyn, United States) is an award-winning American poet and author born to an Iraqi father and a Syrian mother of Jewish heritage. Coming attractions for fall 2006: Page 2
He grew up speaking Arabic in a Sephardic Jewish household, ruled by traditional Arab Jewish culture. Amazon.com: From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America.: Books: Jack Marshall He attended public school as well as a Hebrew school in his neighbourhood.
He is the author of numerous books and poems which reflect and explore his cultural heritage. Two examples, Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America, along with Millennium Fever:Poems, proved very successful. He was awarded the PEN West Award and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, for From Baghdad to Brooklyn. What's New in the Library - Lunch Poems reading by Jack Marshall He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2008.
Jack discovered his love for literature at the New York Public Library, where he used to attend night classes in poetry with poets Robert Lowell and Stanley Kunitz. 08.31.2006 - Lunch Poems' international lineup, Kathleen Maclay, UCBerkleyNews He cites History, Geography and Literature as the subjects he is interested in.