Geoffrey O’Brien

Geoffrey O’Brien was born in 1948 in New York City. He is the author of books including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading (2000), Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears (2004), The Fall of the House of Walworth (2010), Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012 (2013), Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters (2020), and Arabian Nights of 1934 (2023); ten collections of poetry most recently Went Like It Came (2023). He was editor-in-chief, The Library of America (retired 2018) and general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He is a contributor to The New York Review of BooksFilm Comment, and other periodicals.