About
Poet, professor, and literary critic. He published a 1976 poetry collection entitled The Heisenberg Variations and taught at Johns Hopkins University. His last poetry book was released in 2005, titled As Long As It's Big: A Narrative Poem.
Before Fame
After graduating from the University of St. Thomas, he earned his English doctorate from Rice University.
Trivia
He received the prestigious Christian Gauss Prize for a 1994 critical work entitled Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytical Detective Story.
Family Life
He grew up in Houston, Texas, and later settled in Baltimore, Maryland.
Associated With
His first published work of literary criticism, Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner, dealt with the novels of southern author William Faulkner.
