Marilyn Hacker

Mary Biggs (College of New Jersey)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 26 Nov 1942
Activity 1967-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Cultural Identities

LGBTQ

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet

Resources

Hacker's Works

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Marilyn Hacker, born in Bronx, New York, on Thanksgiving Day, 1942, was the only child of Hilda (Rosengarten) and Albert Abraham Hacker, Jewish professionals who had been the first in their families to obtain college degrees. She would earn a degree as well, but only after a series of adventures that suggest her indifference to convention and the complex strength of temperament and emotional intensity that have always supported – indeed, deployed – her intellectual gifts.

In her early teens already a serious writer of poetry, she enrolled in the Bronx High School of Science, then as now one of the “magnet” jewels of the New York City public school system. There she befriended another exceptional student: the Harlem-bred, emphatically gay, African-American Samuel R. (“Chip”)

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Citation: Biggs, Mary. "Marilyn Hacker". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12310, accessed 03 December 2024.]