Mariani, Paul

Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of eighteen books, including seven volumes of poetry and biographies of Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and William Carlos Williams ("William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, " which was a National Book Award finalist). His life of Hart Crane, "The Broken Tower", is a feature-length film directed by and starring James Franco. He lives in Montague, Massachusetts.