Background
Carl Hanna Klaus was born on May 24, 1932, in Cleveland, to Max Henry and Caroline (Epstein) Klaus.
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
In 1953, Klaus received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts in 1954.
Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
Klaus received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966.
(Providing the most thorough coverage available in one vol...)
Providing the most thorough coverage available in one volume, this comprehensive, broadly based collection offers a wide variety of selections in four major genres, and also includes a section on film.
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1991
(With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehe...)
With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays - Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.
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1995
(This passionate gardener's daily record of a growing seas...)
This passionate gardener's daily record of a growing season adds up to one of the best pieces of garden writing in years. But this book is about much more than planting, tending, and harvesting a vegetable garden. It's about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, his wife's possibly recurring cancer, the changing nature of the academic community; it's about the last months of his twenty-year-old cat, about his dog, and about all the other humans and animals in his gardening world.
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1996
(In this distinctive daybook, Carl Klaus reminds readers t...)
In this distinctive daybook, Carl Klaus reminds readers that winter is just as much a part of the year as the time when tulips open, tomatoes thrive, and pumpkins color brown earth. Gardeners, lovers of the outdoors, and weather watchers will recognize themselves in the ways in which Klaus comes to terms with the harsh climate and chilly truths that winter embodies.
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1997
("A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition po...)
"A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition point in life that has gotten surprisingly little literary attention: retirement. The quiet testimony of a man whose ongoing writing, editing, reading, gardening, traveling and ceaseless quest for self-knowledge make him much less retired than many people half his age."-Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
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1999
(With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehe...)
With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehensive selection of classic and contemporary plays Stages of Drama truly engages students by presenting plays not only as texts on the page, but also as works that come to life on the stage.
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1999
(Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a m...)
Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a map but a history. . . . There is something new to be chronicled every day,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love.
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2006
(The human presence that animates the personal essay is su...)
The human presence that animates the personal essay is surely one of the most beguiling of literary phenomena, for it comes across in so familiar a voice that it’s easy to believe we are listening to the author rather than a textual stand-in. But the “person” in a personal essay is always a written construct, a fabricated character, its confessions and reminiscences as rehearsed as those of any novelist. In this first book-length study of the personal essay, Carl Klaus unpacks this made-up self and the manifold ways in which a wide range of essayists and essays have brought it to life.
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2010
(The first historically and internationally comprehensive ...)
The first historically and internationally comprehensive collection of its kind, Essayists on the Essay is a path-breaking work that is nothing less than a richly varied source book for anyone interested in the theory, practice, and art of the essay. This unique work includes a selection of fifty distinctive pieces by American, Canadian, English, European, and South American essayists from Montaigne to the present - many of which have not previously been anthologized or translated - as well as a detailed bibliographical and thematic guide to hundreds of additional works about the essay.
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2012
(Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the cur...)
Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the curriculum - arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences - to offer well-crafted and high-quality writing from these fields. Chosen with the rhetorical purposes of composition in mind by editors who are all distinguished teachers and writers, the selections progress from individual essays to paired texts to casebooks that contain multiple readings on engaging topics and compelling issues.
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2012
(Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, c...)
Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, casual or formal: the self you project in writing - your persona - is the byproduct of numerous decisions you make about what to say and how to say it. Though any single word or phrase or sentence might make little difference within the scope of an entire essay or book, collectively they create an impression of who you are or seem to be - an impression that’s sure to influence how readers respond to your work.
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2013
(My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season i...)
My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season in Iowa—but it’s about much more than planting peppers, tending tomatoes, or harvesting eggplants. It’s about all the things that influence this gardener: the weather, the neighborhood, his wife’s possibly recurring cancer, the changing nature of the academic community. It’s about the last months of his twenty-year-old cat, about his dog, and about all the other humans and animals in his gardening world. And about his family: the aunts and uncles who cared for and fed a six-year-old orphan, and helped him understand that good food was a way of knowing that someone cared.
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2014
Carl Hanna Klaus was born on May 24, 1932, in Cleveland, to Max Henry and Caroline (Epstein) Klaus.
In 1953, Klaus received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Arts in 1954. He also received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1966.
From 1965 to 1968, Klaus first worked at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor, then, from 1968 to 1973, as an associate professor, from 1973 to 1998, he was a professor of English there, and then, in 1998, he became a professor emeritus.
From 1977 to 1984, Klaus was a Director of National Endowment for the Humanities writing workshop, and of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program from 1985 to 1994. Carl also was a writing consultant to National Assessment of Educational Progress from 1972 to 1981. In 1977, he was a visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany.
(The first historically and internationally comprehensive ...)
2012(With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehe...)
1995(With a distinctive emphasis on performance and a comprehe...)
1999(The human presence that animates the personal essay is su...)
2010(Confident or fretful, solemn or sassy, tough or tender, c...)
2013(Providing the most thorough coverage available in one vol...)
1991(Fields of Reading draws on the major divisions of the cur...)
2012(In this distinctive daybook, Carl Klaus reminds readers t...)
1997(My Vegetable Love is a daily record of a growing season i...)
2014("A veteran writer's ruminations about a key transition po...)
1999(This passionate gardener's daily record of a growing seas...)
1996(Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a m...)
2006Klaus was a member of the Modern Language Association, Midwest Modern Language Association and National Council Teachers English.
On July 21, 1953, Klaus married Meredith Helen McSweeny, but they divorced in 1964. In 1967, Klaus married Kale Franks. Carl has three children: Hannah Caroline, Marshall Frederick and Amelia.