Background
Edward McCrorie was born on November 19, 1936 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, in the family of Charles Dawson and Helen Monica (Pollitt) McCrorie.
Edward McCrorie was born on November 19, 1936 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States, in the family of Charles Dawson and Helen Monica (Pollitt) McCrorie.
Edward was educated in local schools in Rhode Island and spent two and one half years at Our Lady of Providence Seminary in Warwick Neck, RI. He then resumed his education at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, graduating in 1962, and taking the MA in English from Villanova University in 1964.
Edward began his career as an English Professor at Providence College in September 1964. He began publishing short poems in many literary journals in 1969 and saw his first book into print, After a Cremation, in 1974. He traveled widely and wrote more in Costa Rica, Europe and China, leading to the publication of his second book of poems, Needle Man, in 1999, with BrickHouse Books Press.
Edward was soon promoted through the ranks at Providence College as a result primarily of his poetry and translations. In fact an esteemed colleague, Rodney Delasanta, by this time a nationally reputed Chaucerian, convinced his colleagues on the Rank and Tenure Committee that the publication of a single exceptional poem was worth ten good scholarly articles.
Member Conservation Commission, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1973-1974. With United States Navy, 1955-1959, Korea. Member Modern Language Association.
On August 29, 1959, Edward married Therese Elise McNeil, but they divorced in 1978. They have four children: Jeanne, Julia, Joyce, and Cynthia. On May 12, 1995 he married a psychologist Beatrice Beebe.