Berkson, Bill

LC control no.	n 50008073
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3552.E7248
Personal name heading	Berkson, Bill *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Berkson, William Craig
Associated country	United States
Located	San Francisco (Calif.)
Address	berkson@pacbell.net
Birth date	1939-08-30
Death date	2016-06-16
Place of birth	Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death	San Francisco (Calif.)
Field of activity	Poetry Art criticism Curatorship Education, Higher
Affiliation	San Francisco Art Institute New York University. Institute of Fine Arts New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) Columbia University Brown University
Profession or occupation	Poets Art critics Art museum curators College teachers
Found in	His O'Hara, F. In memory of my feelings, c1967. Blue is the hero, 1976: title page (Bill Berkson) page 126 (born 1939) Hymns of St. Bridget, ©1974: title page (Bill Berkson) Contemporary authors online, January 12, 2015: (Bill Berkson, born August 30, 1939 in New York, New York; poet; attended Brown University, 1957-1959; Columbia University, 1959-1960; The New School for Social Research, 1959-1961; New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1960-1961; lives in San Francisco, California; email: berkson@pacbell.net) Poetry Foundation website, January 12, 2015 (Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator who has been active in the art and literary worlds; professor emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, where, between 1984 and 2008, he taught art history, art writing and poetry; author of some twenty books and pamphlets of poetry; in the mid-1980s he resumed writing art criticism on a regular basis; as a curator he has organized or co-curated exhibitions) New York times WWW site, viewed June 22, 2016 (Bill Berkson; b. William Craig Berkson, Aug. 30, 1939, Manhattan; d. Thursday [June 16, 2016], San Francisco, aged 76; poet and art critic of '60s Manhattan in-crowd)
Associated language	eng