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From Baghdad to Brooklyn
Author Biography

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Naomi Schwartz

Jack Marshall was born in Brooklyn to parents who had emigrated from Iraq and Syria. After graduating from public high school, he worked in the New York garment district. At the age of nineteen, after traveling and working various odd jobs in the Midwest and South, he shipped out as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter to West Africa. In 1968, he moved to San Francisco where he lives today.

His memoir, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, was a PEN Center USA finalist and his previous poetry collections have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. Marshall is also the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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