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Jonathan Strong
Education
B.A. Harvard University, 1969
Biography
Born in Illinois in 1944; graduated from Harvard College; first book
Tike and Five Stories published 1969, awarded Rosenthal Foundation Award of National Institute of Arts and Letters; lecturer at Tufts 1969-78; taught five years at Harvard, two at U.Mass Boston, and four at Wellesley before returning to Tufts as senior lecturer in 1989; won National Endowment for the Arts grants 1968, 1986; teaches in summer English M.A. program at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Campus; active in Tufts' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgendered community.
Curriculum Vitae
Please click here for Professor Strong's Curriculum Vitae.
Research Interests
In addition to nine published works of fiction, I have made performing editions of four libretti by W.S.Gilbert by arranging music by Arthur Sullivan to fit Gilbert's texts;
Thespis (the first G&S opera whose original score has been lost) has been performed in my edition at the Wallace Stevens Theater in Hartford and the Academy of Music in Northampton;
The Gentleman in Black was performed at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire,
Happy Arcadia by the Royal Victorian Opera Co., and
Topsyturvydom by the New England G&S Society. More broadly, I am very much interested in 19th Century opera of all sorts.
Courses Taught
- English 5/6 Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction
- English 9/10 Intermediate Fiction Writing
Publication Highlights
- Books
- A Circle Around Her (novel) (Zoland Books, 2000)
- The Old World (novel) (Zoland, 1997)
- Offspring (novel) (Zoland, 1995)
- An Untold Tale (novel) (Zoland, 1993)
- Companion Pieces (two novellas) (Zoland, 1993)
- Secret Words (novel) (Zoland, 1992)
- Elsewhere (novel) (Ballantine Books, 1985; reprint forthcoming from XLibris)
- Ourselves (novel) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1971; reprint XLibris)
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