Emile Capouya
Emile Capouya was an American essayist, critic, and writer. His book 'In the sparrow Hills' won the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 300-member honor society whose goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Its fixed number membership is elected for lifetime appointments. Its headqua .... Mr. Capouya was born in Manhattan in 1925 and grew up in the Bronx. Life Capouya studied at Columbia University in New York City and started his working life at ''New Directions Publishing, New Directions''. From 1969–1981 he was Literary Editor of ''The Nation'' and wrote for ''The New American Review'', ''The New York Times'' and ''Saturday Review (US magazine), The Saturday Review''. Capouya published the work of Ezra Pound, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and James Joyce. In 1971 he was appointed associate professor of English at Baruch Coll ...
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Essayist
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization, length," whereas the informal essay is characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual tastes and experiences, confidential manner), humor, graceful style, rambling structure, unconventionality or novelty of theme," etc. Essays are commonly used as literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's ''An Essay on Criticism'' and ''An Essay on Man''). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke's ''An E ...
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