Professor Deborah Tall

Deborah Tall (1951-2006) is the author of five collections of poetry, and two prose works -- a memoir of her life in rural Ireland in the 1970s , The Island of the White Cow , and a book-length lyric essay, A Family of Strangers, about history, silence and family secrets. For many years, she taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal Seneca Review .

Deborah Tall (1951-2006) is the author of five collections of poetry, and two prose works -- a memoir of her life in rural Ireland in the 1970s , The Island of the White Cow , and a book-length lyric essay, A Family of Strangers, about history, silence and family secrets. For many years, she taught writing and literature at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and edited the literary journal Seneca Review . See less