Background
Lally, Michael David was born on May 25, 1942 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of James A. and Irene I. (Dempsey) Lally.
(Michael Lally, winner of a 1999 American Book Award for h...)
Michael Lally, winner of a 1999 American Book Award for his sensational debut Black Sparrow volume, It's Not Nostalgia, evinces the same stunning honesty and self-analytical clarity in this powerful new collection of autobiographical poetry and prose. Retracing his wandering life-path from a rough Irish-Catholic boyhood in a working-class suburb of Newark, N.J., through turbulent years of radical political engagement in Washington, D.C., struggling-poet bohemianism in New York and elusive brushes with movie-star fame in Hollywood, Lally finally circles back to his home turf of South Orange, an older and wiser man. If in the chapter, "Lally's Alley," the author's large family "owned" the eponymous block on which they lived, so too does Lally own this work. The book's melange of vignettes, poems, tracts, and reminiscences is daring to say the least; still, sprawling like the Lally clan, these variegated ruminations manage quite nicely to cohere. Lally is a fierce writer and intellect. His Irish-American heritage is a recurring theme, but it provides a jumping-off point for exploring the American Way and the different American zeitgeists the author has witnessed, rather than acting as a limiting agent. Though his "Newark Poem" explains that the speaker has waited all his life in Jersey for the great cities of the world to come to him, It Takes One to Know One rises above New Jersey and indeed even America as Lally plumbs the soul of his people, his country and himself
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Lally, Michael David was born on May 25, 1942 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of James A. and Irene I. (Dempsey) Lally.
Bachelor, University Iowa, 1968. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1969.
Instructor, Trinity College, Washington, 1969-1974; book reviewer, Washington Post, 1974-1977; editor, Franklin Library division Franklin Mint, 1976-1979; editor, public various newspapers and presses including, Iowa Defender, Some of Us Press, The Washington Review of the Arts, 1966-1980; editor, public various newspapers and presses including, Venice magazine, 1988-1991; editor, public various newspapers and presses including, The Hollywood Review, 1991. Board directors The Print Center, Brooklyn, 1972-1975, Washington Film Classroom, 1970-1972.
(Michael Lally, winner of a 1999 American Book Award for h...)
(fiction/poems/autobiography, Lally's best book)
Served with United States Air Force, 1962-1966. Member Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Writers Guild American, P.E.N. (Oakland Josephine Miles award for excellence in literature 1997).
Married Lee Fischer, 1964 (deceased 1986). Children: Caitlin Maeve, Miles Aaron. Married Jaina Flynn, 1997.
1 child, Flynn Albert James.