The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles

Dana Gioia was born in Los Angeles in 1950. He received his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. He also has an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. For fifteen years, he worked as a business executive in New York before quitting in 1992 to write full-time. He has published three collections of poetry—Daily Horoscope (Graywolf, 1986), The Gods of Winter (Graywolf, 1991), and Interrogations at Noon (Graywolf, 2001), which won the American Book Award. He has also written an opera libretto, Nosferatu (Graywolf, 2001). The first editions of Can Poetry Matter? (Graywolf, 1992) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A prolific essayist, reviewer, and translator, Gioia has also published nine anthologies of poetry and fiction. Dana Gioia was appointed Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in February 2003.Dana Gioia is the author of 'The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles', published 2003 under ISBN 9781888996692 and ISBN 1888996692.