Robert Polito

Robert Polito, who received his doctorate from Harvard University, is director of the writing program at the New School for Social Research. He co-edited and introduced FIREWORKS, a collection of hard-boiled novelist Jim Thompson's writings, and wrote a biography of Thompson entitled SAVAGE ART, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award. He also is the author of DOUBLES, a book of poems, and A READER'S GUIDE TO JAMES MERRILL'S THE CHANGING LIGHT AT SANDOVER. He is a contributing writer for The Boston Review and The Boston Phoenix.

DETOURS (Alfred A. Knopf)

SAVAGE ART: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)