T. Alan Broughton


Thomas Alan Broughton was an American poet and amateur pianist.
Broughton was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, the noted Latin prosopographer, and Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton.
From 1966 until 2001 Broughton taught writing at the University of Vermont. He has attended Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Juilliard School of Music. He received degrees from Swarthmore College and the University of Washington.
Broughton received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim for fiction in 1982, an NEH Fellowship, and was elected a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012. He served as a cultural representative in southeast Asia, Egypt, and Italy under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. Broughton was married first to Lenore Follansbee Broughton and then to Laurel Broughton.

Works

Poetry

  • The Skin and All: Songs for the Cruelest Months, with images by Bill Davison.
  • In the Face of Descent,.
  • The Man on the Moon.
  • The Others We Are.
  • Far From Home,.
  • Dreams Before Sleep,
  • The Jesse Tree
  • Preparing to Be Happy.
  • In the Country of Elegies,
  • The Origin of Green,.
  • A World Remembered.

    Fiction

  • A Family Gathering, a novel.
  • Winter Journey, a novel.
  • The Horsemaster, a novel.
  • Hob's Daughter, a novel.
  • Suicidal Tendencies, short stories,.

    Necrology

  • "Professor Emeritus T. Alan Broughton Dies at Age 76"
  • "Obituary: T. ALAN BROUGHTON." The Burlington Free Press