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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.
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.
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.
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...
She was born in San Francisco, California to Cornell literature professor Phyllis Winer and psychiatrist Julian Janowitz. After her parents divorced when she was 10, she and her brother grew up with their mother in Massachusetts.
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- April 12, 1956
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Aug 27, 2014 · Her national and international honors included the Emily Dickinson Award of the Poetry Society of America. Survivors include her daughter, Tama, of Ithaca; and son, David, of Houston. Poet and Professor Emerita of English Phyllis Janowitz has died. Janowitz, 84, passed away Aug. 17 in Montour Falls, New York.
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.
