Background
Hampl, Patricia was born on March 12, 1946 in St. Paul. Daughter of Stanislaus Rudolph Hampl and Mary Teresa Marum.
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"A religious cliff-hanger--intimate, compelling, hard to put down." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Eager to shake off the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, Patricia Hample seeks the "old world" of Catholicism. On her pilgrimage she meets others seekers--crotchety English agnostics, American Franciscan friars and nuns, and the seekers that fill every charter flight. Inevitably, too, she finds the "old world" right at home, in the very past she had tried to escape. But what she is looking for confronts her, finally, on a rereat at a monastery near the Lost Coast of northern California in the still, virgin moments of silent prayer....
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A now classic memoir, described by Doris Grumbach as "unusually elegant and meditative," once more available with an updated afterword by the author. Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europe and the city of Kafka and Rilke. Hampl's subsequent memoir, a brilliant evocation of Czech life under socialism, attained the stature of living history, and added to our understanding not only of Central Europe but also of what it means to be engaged in the struggle of a people to define and affirm themselves. Reissued now, during the tenth anniversary of that astonishing upheaval known as the Velvet Revolution, A Romantic Education includes an extensive updated afterword based on Hampl's annual return trips to Prague and the Czech countryside. Here is an excellent introduction to what was once the unknown "other Europe" behind the Iron Curtain and is now the continent's hottest new travel destination. Once again, as she did in a darker time, Hampl sees the texture beneath the surface of things and intuits the changing life of one of Europe's most bewitching cities. A Romantic Education is an exquisite journey into history and into the conundrum of personal memory
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Hampl, Patricia was born on March 12, 1946 in St. Paul. Daughter of Stanislaus Rudolph Hampl and Mary Teresa Marum.
Bachelor, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1968. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, Iowa City, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College St. Catherine, St. Paul, 1993.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Luther College, Decorh, Iowa, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University St. Thomas, St. Paul, 1996.
Hampl earned her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Iowa in 1970. Hampl worked as an editor of the Minnesota Monthly from 1973 to 1975. She worked as freelance writer and editor from 1975 to 1979.
Between 1979 and 1996, Hampl occupied the positions of visiting assistant professor, associate professor, and professor of English at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
Hampl has also served as an educator at other institutions such as Ball State University and West Virginia University. She also served as a faculty member for the Bread Loaf Writers" Conference 1995 and 1996.
She is a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review. In the Spring semester 2015, Hampl was an Adjunct Faculty in the Writing program at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Hampl is best known for her emotionally charged and introspective works in the memoir genre.
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative, another of Hampl’s memoirs, dealt with her Roman Catholic upbringing. The book was met with critical acclaim when it was published in 2007. Hampl is also the author of several poems and other works (See Selected Bibliography Below).
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Since 2005, she has been a member of the permanent faculty of the Prague Summer Program, hosted by Prague"s Charles University and Western Michigan University.
Married Terrence J. Williams, September 10, 1988.