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Life and career. Her parents, psychiatrist Julian Janowitz and Phyllis Janowitz (née Winer), [3] a literature professor at Cornell University, divorced when she was ten. She and her brother David grew up with her mother in Massachusetts, [4] and, for two years in the late 1960s, in Israel. [5]
Sep 5, 2014 · Phyllis Janowitz, professor emerita of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, died late last month at a nursing home in Montour Falls, New York. She was 84 years old. Professor Janowitz taught poetry and creative writing at Cornell for nearly 30 years.
Of Polish and Hungarian ancestry, Janowitz was the older of two children of Julian Janowitz, a neo-Freudian psychiatrist, and Phyllis Janowitz, a poet and assistant professor at Cornell...
Phyllis Janowitz was born in New York, N.Y., to Lillian Reiner and Morris Winer. Her mother worked as a homemaker and in retail sales, and her father was a police officer.
Sep 14, 2018 · Earl Przepasniak, the protagonist and narrator of Janowitz's debut novel, American Dad, is eleven years old when his parents divorce. Earl's father, a psychiatrist, is an amiable, self-absorbed, pot-smoking philanderer whose unrepressed behavior upsets and embarrasses the family.
Nov 24, 2017 · The star of Janowitz’s story is her mother, the poet Phyllis Janowitz. Their bond is deep and unwavering. Tama praises her for encouraging her creativity and supporting her dreams of becoming...
Aug 12, 2024 · Her closest friend is her mother. They talk on the phone several times each day. Phyllis Janowitz has red hair as thick as Tama's, a quiet voice, and a guileless manner.
