Lewis Hyde is a scholar and writer whose scholarly work focuses on the nature of imagination, creativity, and property. Hyde received an M.A. in comparative literature from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Minnesota. After many years of freelance work and odd jobs, he taught writing at Harvard University (1983-1989); in his last year there, he directed the undergraduate writing program. From 1989 to 2001 he was the Luce Professor of Arts and Politics at Kenyon College in Ohio. As of 2006, he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon, and a visiting fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center. He is also a Nonresident Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication. Hyde's awards include an NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (1979); three NEA Creative Writing Fellowships (1977, 1982, 1987); a MacArthur Fellowship (the "Genius" award) (1991); a residency at the Getty Center, Los Angeles (1993-94); an "Osher Fellow" at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (1998);[1] a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2002); an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2003); and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2006). He is the son of Elizabeth Sanford Hyde and Walter Lewis Hyde, and is married to Patricia Vigderman.
Bibliography
- Twenty Poems, by Vincente Aleixandre (1977) Translated by Lewis Hyde and Robert Bly, edited by Lewis Hyde
- The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983)
- On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (Under Discussion) (1985)
- Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking (1986)
- This Error is the Sign of Love: Poems (1988) Milkweed Editions
- "Elegy for John Cage" (1993) Kenyon Review 15 (3): 55-56
- "American memory, American forgetfulness + Heritage and history" (1997) Kenyon Review 19 (1): U1-U4
- "2 ACCIDENTS, REFLECTIONS ON CHANCE AND CREATIVITY" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (3-4): 19-35
- "The Land of the Dead" (1996) Kenyon Review 18 (1): 27-34
- "Prophecy (An excerpt from the forthcoming book, Trickster Makes This World, Mischief, Myth, and Art)" (1998) American Poetry Review 27 (1): 45-55
- Created Commons (Paper Series) (1998)
- Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art (1998)
- "Henry Thoreau, John Brown, and the problem of prophetic action (Excerpted from the introduction to The 'Essays of Henry D. Thoreau')" (2002) Raritan - A Quarterly Review 22 (2): 125-144
- The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (2002) Edited by Lewis Hyde
- Posts at On The Commons blog
