Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. Faber and Faber published his first collection of poems while he was still a student at Queen's University, Belfast. For several years he was a radio producer for BBC Northern Ireland. He moved to the United States in 1987 and has held various teaching posts at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He lives in New Jersey and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton. He won the 1995 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for The Annals of Chile. In October 1995, Faber published The Last Thesaurus, his first collection of verse for children. His published works also include: Why Brownlee Left; Selected Poems of Paul Muldoon; Meeting The British and Madoc.

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