Robert Polito
Robert Polito is a poet, biographer, essayist, critic, educator, curator, and arts administrator. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography in 1995 for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. The founding director of the New School Graduate Writing Program in New York City, he was President of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015, before returning to the New School as a professor of writing. In 2019, in collaboration with Michael Almereyda and Jonathan Lethem, Polito published Manny Farber: Paintings & Writings. In 2026 he published After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace (Liveright), andJim Thompson: Noir Novels of the 1950s & 1960s.
Books
At the Titan's Breakfast
2016
ISBN 9781138673243
The Rat's Nest
2011
ISBN 9780984640027
Crime novels : American Noir of the Thirties and Forties
1997
ISBN 9781883011468
A reader's guide to James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover
1994
ISBN 9780472065240
Savage Art
1995
ISBN 9780679733522
Doubles
1995
ISBN 9780226673370
Hollywood & God
2009
ISBN 9780226673394
Hollywood and God
2009
ISBN 9780226103655
Farber On Film The Complete Film Writings Of Manny Farber
2009
ISBN 9781598530506
Arte salvaje
2014
ISBN 9788494029875
After the Flood
2025
ISBN 9780871402936- No cover
The Postman Always Rings Twice / Double Indemnity / Mildred Pierce / Selected Stories
1934
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s