Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning

Robert Demaria was born in New York, studied at Columbia (where he was an undergraduate in the Beat Generation) and eventually earned a Ph. D. in modern British literature. He was an editor at Macmillan, taught writing at various universities and was the Associate Dean of the New School for Social Research. He published The Mediterranean Review. He is the author of fourteen novels and has published short fiction and poetry in various magazines. These days he divides his time between Deia on the island of Mallorca and Port Jefferson on Long Island and is working on a memoir called My Secret Childhood.