Fox, Hugh, 1932-2011

Hugh Fox was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Chicago in 1932. He became interested in literature at a young age, and got his master's degree in the Humanities at Chicago's Loyola University. He went on to get his Ph. D. in American literature from the University of Illinois, and became a teacher at Loyola University in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, he served as visiting professor of American Studies in Mexico and Caracas, Venezuela. While teaching in South America, he worked on his novel The Taffy Hills, which was never published. Returning to Los Angeles, he concentrated on his poetry and also wrote his novel Countdown on an Empty Streetcar. He also began to explore his transvestite inclinations, and occasionally published under the name of his female alter-ego, Connie. In 1968, he founded Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry, which he edited for 27 years. After leaving Los Angeles, he accepted a post at Michigan State University's Department of American Thought and Language, where he is now a Professor Emeritus. He continues to write novels, nonfiction, poetry, and critical studies of other authors.

From the description of Hugh Fox Papers, ca. 1960s. (University of California, Santa Barbara). WorldCat record id: 56898246

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