Bill Freedman received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1964. He taught at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and at the University of Haifa in Israel from 1967 to 2003. Since his retirement in 2003, he has been teaching and serving as an advisor to the English Department at the Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin. He has published two books of literary criticism, Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel (1978) and The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe’s Short Fiction (2002), and three books of poetry, Being Them All (2005), Some Can (2009), and Last Things and After (2011). He has also published about fifty articles on literary criticism and theory and more than one hundred poems in various journals and magazines in the United States.

Author of:  The Boy Who Wanted to Marry His Dog

Also by Bill Freedman:

  • Laurence Sterne and the Origins of the Musical Novel (1978)
  • The Porous Sanctuary: Art and Anxiety in Poe’s Short Fiction (2002)
  • Being Them All (2005)
  • Some Can (2009)
  • Last Things and After (2011)