More About the Author
Catharine Savage Brosman, who was born in Colorado, went to high school and college in Texas (Rice University). She lived subsequently in Florida, Virginia, New Orleans (four decades), and now has returned to Houston. She is Professor Emerita of French at Tulane University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield (England). She is the author or editor of numerous books dealing with nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and authors such as André Gide, Roger Martin du Gard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Roy, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus. She has published, in addition, many scholarly articles and read papers in the U.S. and abroad. Her creative publications comprise two volumes of creative prose (personal essays), three chapbooks, and seven collections of poetry: Watering (University of Georgia Press, 1972), Journeying from Canyon de Chelly (1990), Passages (1996), Places in Mind (2000), The Muscled Truce (2003), Range of Light (2007), all from LSU Press, and Breakwater (Mercer University Press, 2009). A chapbook, Trees in a Park, will come out at Chicory Bloom Press in 2010, and another collection, Under the Pergola, will be published by LSU Press in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Critical Quarterly and Quarterly Review(England), the South Carolina Review, the Southwest Review, New England Review, and First Things. French translations of her poems have come out in the Nouvelle Revue Française, Europe, and other French magazines. She is married and has one married daughter. Her interests beyond literature include music (especially opera and ballet), camping, and traveling.
