Sven Birkerts, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sven Birkerts

American academic and writer

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Pontiac, Michigan, United States

Profession: university teacher, literary critic, essayist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sven Birkerts (born September 21, 1951) is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry.
He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture." Birkerts was born in Pontiac, Michigan.
He graduated from Cranbrook School and then from the University of Michigan in 1973. Birkerts is Director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the editor of AGNI, the literary journal.
He has taught writing at Harvard University, Emerson College, Amherst College, and Mount Holyoke College. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife Lynn.
He has two children, Mara and Liam. His father was noted architect Gunnar Birkerts.