Leonard Nathan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Leonard Nathan

American writer and academic

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1924

Place of Birth: El Monte, California, United States

Date of Death: 03-Jun-2007

Profession: poet, translator, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Leonard E.
Nathan, (November 8 1924 - June 3, 2007) was an American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991. Born in El Monte, California, Nathan earned a bachelor's degree in English at UC Berkeley in 1950, a master's degree in English in 1952 and a Ph.D.
in 1961.
He was then hired as a lecturer in UC Berkeley's Department of Speech, and was promoted to associate professor in 1965 and to professor in 1968. Among other honors, he received the National Institute of Arts and Letters prize for poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Phelan Award for Narrative Poetry, and three silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California, including one for The Potato Eaters.
His poems were also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, New England Review and The Georgia Review, among other publications.