Daniel Mark Epstein (born 25 October 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet, dramatist and biographer. October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - D.C. Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2...

Epstein earned his B.A. from Kenyon College. He has been awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome (1977), the Robert Frost Prize, the Emily Clark Balch Prize from The Virginia Quarterly, an an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006. His biographical subjects include Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman, Nat King Cole, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Aimee Semple McPherson. He has published seven volumes of poetry, including No Vacancies in Hell (1973), Young Men's Gold (1978), The Book of Fortune (1982), Spirits (1987) and The Traveler's Calendar (2002) as well as a book of stories, Star of Wonder (1986)and the memoir Love's Compass (1990). (All facts cited in Marquis Who's Who in America.) Kenyon College is a private, highly selective liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for art students. ... Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819–March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ... Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ... Aimee Stewart she was also the founder of the Foursquare Church. ...

His poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, The Hudson Review, and many other magazines. His plays, which have been produced Off-Broadway and in regional theaters include Jenny and the Phoenix, The Midnight Visitor, and The Leading Lady.

In a review in Booklists of Epstein's book of poetry The Traveler's Calendar, (February 29, 2002) the critic wrote, "Biographies of Aimee Semple McPherson, Nat 'King' Cole, and Edna St. Vincent Millay have won Epstein greater renown, but his best writing is his mythically and historically haunted poetry....Epstein's new work...expresses the sorrows of the middle of life's journey with near-Dantesque poignancy."

Further Readings About the Author: America, May 7, 1988, pp. 490-91; May 12, 1990/ Atlantic, October 2001, pp. 112-116/ Best Sellers, March , 1979/ Booklist, July 1995, p. 1855; September 15, 1999, p. 195/ Boston Globe, April 6, 1993, p. 65/ Carolina Quarterly, winter, 1974/ Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1987, p. 14/ National Review, December 24, 1982, pp. 1624-25, July 29, 2002, p. 47/ New Republic, December 10, 1977, p. 34, September 16, 1978, pp. 25026/ New York Review of Books, March 14, 2002, p. 32/ New York Times Book Review, March 14, 1993, p. 11: December 26, 1999, p.1/ New Yorker, September 3, 2001, pp. 86-91; May 24, 2004, p. 87/ Parnassus, fall/winter, 1974/ Sewanee Review, spring 1974, pp. 404-405/ Southern Review, Summer, 2002, p. 662/ Time Magazine, December 13, 1999, p. 110/ Virginia Quarterly Review, summer 1974, winter, 1979 Washington Post, December 3, 1978 Washington Post Book World, March 14, 1993 West Coast Review of Books, vol. 5, number 5, 1990

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