David Kirby

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David Kirby

Literature

#3323

World Rank

#5577

Historical Rank

#1542

USA Rank

Writing

#1182

World Rank

#1606

Historical Rank

#802

USA Rank

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Why Is David Kirby Influential?

According to Wikipedia, David Kirby is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University . Biography Early life Kirby was raised in "the rural south" by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer and a "farm-girl" mother turned elementary school teacher who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep on their family's 10-acre property in Louisiana.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With David Kirby ?

David Kirby is affiliated with the following schools:

• Florida State University
• Johns Hopkins University