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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 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.
Aug 27, 2014 · Poet and Professor Emerita of English Phyllis Janowitz died Aug. 17 at Seneca View Skilled Nursing Facility in Montour Falls, New York. She was 84. Janowitz taught creative writing and poetry at Cornell for nearly 30 years and served as director of the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English twice, from 1980-83 and 1986-91.
Aug 17, 2014 · 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. She grew up with an older sister, Ruth Winer, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
- March 9, 1930
Her parents, psychiatrist Julian Janowitz and Phyllis Janowitz (née Winer), a literature professor at Cornell University, divorced when she was ten. She and her brother David grew up with her mother in Massachusetts, and, for two years in the late 1960s, in Israel.
Oct 10, 2013 · Two years ago, it had fallen to Janowitz to put her mother, poet and Cornell professor Phyllis Janowitz, in a nursing home and to begin the arduous process of clearing out her mother’s house.
Aug 25, 2016 · Janowitz’s father was a wealthy, philandering, pothead psychiatrist who, well into his 80s, consorts with drug dealers and keeps a sawed-off shotgun under his bed.
