Patricia Hampl
(born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship [1], teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis [2] and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center [3].
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Life
Hampl was born in
St. Paul, Minnesota to Stanley and Mary Hampl. She attended the
University of Minnesota where she earned her
B.A. in
1968. Hampl earned her
M.F.A. at the
University of Iowa in
1970.
Hampl worked as an editor of the
Minnesota Monthly from
1973 to
1975. She worked as freelance writer and editor from
1975 to
1979. Between
1979 and
1996, Hampl occupied the positions of visiting assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of English at the
University of Minnesota at
Minneapolis. Hampl has also served as an educator at other institutions such as
Ball State University and
West Virginia University. She also served as a faculty member for the
Breadloaf Writers Conference in
1995 and
1996.
Writing career
Hampl is best known for her emotionally charged and introspective works in the
memoir genre. Her first memoir,
A Romantic Education
, dealt with Hampl’s
Czech heritage and won Hampl the
Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship in
1981.
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
, another of Hampl’s memoirs, dealt with her
Roman Catholic upbringing.
More recently, Hampl has won recognition for her memoir
The Florist’s Daughter
which deals were her feelings at the time of her mother’s death. The book was met with critical acclaim when it was published in
2007. The
New York Times Book Review stated that “Hampl’s honest examination of her own life makes
The Florist’s Daughter
a wonder of a memoir.” It won the 2008 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction.
[4]
Hampl is also the author of several poems and other works (See Selected Bibliography Below).
Awards
(Note: This is a list of selected awards. For a complete list of awards earned by Patricia Hampl, see the External Links section below)
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1976)
- National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1976)
- Bush Foundation Fellowship (1979)
- Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship (1981)
- Fulbright Fellowship (1995)
- McKnight Distinguished University Professorship (1996)
- Distinguished Achievement Award, Western Literature Association (2001)
Selected bibliography
- Woman Before an Aquarium
(1978)
- A Romantic Education
(1981)
- Resort and Other Poems
(1983)
- (With Steven Sorman) Spillville
(1987)
- Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
(1992)
- Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime
(2006)
- The Florist's Daughter: A Memoir
(2007)
References
- All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- http://www.patriciahampl.com/bio3.html
- The Loft Literary Center: History
- Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 2008