| LC control no. | n 83016621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3557.I5215 |
| Personal name heading | Gioia, Dana |
| Variant(s) | Джойа, Дейна, 1950- Dzhoĭa, Deĭna, 1950- Gioia, Michael Dana, 1950- |
| See also | Employer: General Foods Corporation Employer: University of Southern California Officer of: National Endowment for the Arts Gioia, Ted |
| Biography/History note | Dana Gioia (1950- ) is an American poet. He has chaired the Natioal Endowment for the Arts and became the California State Poet Laureate in 2015. Previous to 1992, when he became a full-time poet, he was an executive at General Foods Corporation. He is the brother of jazz historian and composer Ted Gioia. |
| Associated place | Stanford (Calif.) Cambridge (Mass.) Los Angeles (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1950-12-24 |
| Place of birth | Hawthorne (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry American literature |
| Affiliation | General Foods Corporation University of Southern California National Endowment for the Arts Stanford University Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Authors Executives College teachers Poets laureate |
| Special note | Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Daily horoscope, 1982: t.p. (Dana Gioia) LC data base, 7/12/83 (hdg.: Gioia, Dana) His Daily horoscope, c1986: t.p. (Dana Gioia) jkt. (b. in Los Angeles, 1950; residence: outside New York City) This man's army, 2008: ECIP t.p. (Dana Gioia) data view (b. Dec. 24, 1950; currently director of the National Endowment for the Arts) Golos v poldenʹ, 2007: t.p. (Deĭna Dzhoĭa) Wikipedia, 26 February 2016 (Dana Gioia, Michael Dana Gioia; born December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, California; American poet and writer; was Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California; became the California State Poet Laureate in 2015; BA, Stanford University (1973); MA, Harvard University (1975); MBA, Stanford Business School (1977); worked for General Foods Corporation 1977-1992, became vice president of marketing, resigned to pursue a full-time career as a poet; brother of jazz historian Ted Gioia) |
| Associated language | eng |
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