Frederick Robert Kirwin
| Frederick Robert Kirwin | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 12, 1942 Rochester, Pennsylvania, US |
| 🏫 Education | Florida State University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Scott Kahn |
Frederick Robert Kirwin (October 12, 1942) is an American poet and novelist.[1]
Early life
Frederick Robert Kirwin was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania to Frederick Bayard Kirwin, and Roberta (née Webb) Kirwin. Frederick Bayard Kirwin was an engineer for Curtis Wright, and later a District Sales Manager and independent contractor for Fuller Brush, Inc.; and Roberta Kirwin was a television producer and director for WEDU-Ch. 3.[2]
Education
Kirwin graduated from Boca Ciega High School, and later attended Florida State University in Tallahassee where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and International Affairs, and a Master of Arts in Government. He passed the Prelims in the Ph.D. program at Florida State in Government, received a teaching fellowship and published a scholarly article with Richard Gray, Ph.D. on the “Presidential Succession in Chile: 1817-1966,” Journal of Inter-American Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1969), and later resigned from the program opting instead to accept a Schubert Fellowship in Theatre, eventually earning an MFA in Playwriting.[2]
Selected works
Books include, Of the Garden of Delights (poetry collection); Body Carnal (poetry collection); Body Sacred (poetry collection); Billy and Dakota Myth (novel); The Bark Heard Round The World (murder mystery); The Necropolis of the Sea (novel); Dog Bites Man (murder mystery). Productions of plays include, Billy (Playwrights Horizons, NYC); Swan Dive (Playwrights Horizons, NYC); Dog Bites Man (Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, UK, and at Rock Theatre, Brighton, U.K.); The Lottery (Tristan Bates Theatre, Covent Garden, London, UK, and at Fox Theatre, London, UK); Talking about Diana (King's Head Theatre, London, UK, and at Camden People's Theatre, London, UK).[2]
Awards
Kirwin was the recipient of five Edward Albee Foundation Fellowships; The Dramatists Guild Fund Award in honor of Mr. Richard Rodgers; and was Playwright-in-Residence at North Carolina School of the Arts.[2]
Personal life
In 1975, Edward Albee introduced Kirwin to artist, Scott Kahn while Kahn and Kirwin were visiting Albee at the Edward F. Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York. Kahn and Kirwin were married in 2020 in a civil ceremony via Zoom during the COVID-19 Pandemic from Kahn's cousin's attic where Kahn and Kirwin then resided in New Rochelle, New York.[2]
References
- ↑ Caryn B. Davis, "Scott Kahn - An Artist's Life" INK Publications, October 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 de Luca, Théo (2022). SCOTT KAHN. Almine Rech Editions. ISBN 978-2-930573-44-1. Search this book on
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