Lary Bloom

Background

About Lary Bloom

I am a writer, teacher of writing, and book editor. Among the books I have written (or co-authored): Letters from Nuremberg (Crown), The Test of Our Times (St. Martin's Press), When the Game is on the Line (Perseus), Lary Bloom's Connecticut Notebook (Globe Pequot), and The Writer Within (Contemporary, and Bibliopola. I am at work on a biography of the late artist Sol LeWitt for Farrar Straus. I teach in the MFA Creative Writing program of Fairfield University, and was co-founder of Writing at the Mark Twain House, and of Praiano Writers, now planning its second year of writing seminars on the Amalfi Coast of Italy - see For 30 years, I was a Sunday magazine editor, first in Akron, then Miami, and finally in Hartford. I am co-founder of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, entering its 21st year. I have edited two best-selling books, My Old Man and the Sea, and Camera Boy. My website is