Background
Bruce Gordon was born on 3 September in 1947 in Boston. The son of Edward Teed and Maud (Eckert) Wilcox.
Bruce Gordon was born on 3 September in 1947 in Boston. The son of Edward Teed and Maud (Eckert) Wilcox.
Bruce Gordon studied at Harvard University. In 1969 he became a Bachelor of Arts.
Bruce Gordon worked as an assistant Sales Manager, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1970-1971, Editor, 1975-1982. Program Officer, Franklin Book Programs, New York City and Dacca, Bangladesh, 1972-1975. Director, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1982-2014.
Consultant National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, 1983, 85, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 1991.
(photo of Colin Day (Michigan), Sheldon Hackney (NEH), and...)
Member, Association American University Presses, 1975-2014 (delegate to Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe 1977, to China 1985, to Estonia and CSFR 1992, to Colombia, 1997, Board of Directors, 1990-1996, President 1994-1995). Board of Directors, Massachusetts Review, 1987-2013.
Bruce Gordon married to Greta Green on 7 April in 1974. They have three children: Sarah M., Thor E., Hilary A.