PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of two novels, The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer, two poetry books, The Daily Round and The Eyes Don’t Always Want to Stay Open, a collection of personal essays, Bachelorhood, and a nonfiction book, Being with Children. He is currently writing a new volume of essays, tentatively titled Against Joie de Vivre. He teaches one semester at the University of Houston and lives the rest of the year in New York City.
– The Best American Essays 1987 (p. 316). Ticknor & Fields.