Charles Munoz. Courtesy obitTree.
Charles Carroll Muñoz (July 2, 1926 - February 22, 2018) was an American poet, novelist, and publisher.[1]
Life[]
Munoz was born in Bronx, New York City, to Constance (Stoutenburgh) and O.A. Muñoz.[1]
He began his career working as a hospital orderly and intern.[1] He joined the U.S. Navy at 17.[2]
After serving as a World War II navy aerial gunner in torpedo bombers, Muñoz worked as a United States Merchant Marine radio officer, sailing on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships, and for several years on munitions ships bound for duty in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.[1]
He attended Columbia University, and wrote his masters thesis on English poet Edward Young in 1953. He married Bernardine Martin in 1955.[1]
For a while, he entertained himself as an explorer of caves, a walker in the desert, and a writer on arctic survival for the Air Force. He then chose more formal professions, becoming a university English professor; an executive at Xerox, Grolier, and Mattel; and finally vice president of Springhouse Corporation, a publisher of medical books and magazines.[1]
His science fiction short stories appeared in the 1950s and 1960s under the pseudonym T.P. Caravan. Stowaway, his mainstream sea novel, was published by Random House in 1957.[1]
He was also a poet, and for 5 years was the poetry editor of Jewish Spectator magazine. His selected poems, Fragments of a Myth, were published in 2001.[1]
Writing[]
Muñoz's varied experiences form the background that enriches his poems, which are often conventionally suburban in their location but wildly mythic in their subtext.[3]
Recognition[]
In 1992, he won the annual competition to be Poet Laureate of Bucks co., Pennsylvania.[2]
His poems earned 4 nominations for the Pushcart Prize.[1]
His science fiction story "Random Sample" (1953) was reprinted in the anthology Worst Contact (Baen Books, 2016).[4]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Wet Basement (chapbook). 1994.
- Fragments of a Myth: Modern poems on ancient themes. St. Louis, MO: Time Being Books, 2001.
Novel[]
- Stowaway. New York: Random House, 1957.
.Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Charles Carroll Munoz, ObitTree. Web, Sep. 3, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Marguerite P. Jones, "An English Teacher Whose Prose Turned Into Poetry Late In Life First A Novelist And A Scriptwriter, Charles Munoz, 66, Started Writing Poetry A Couple Of Years Ago. He's Now Bucks County Poet Laureate", Philadelphia Inquirer, November 1, 1992. Philly.com, Web, Mar. 26, 2013.
- ↑ Charles Munoz, Time Being Books. Web, Sep. 3, 2018.
- ↑ Charles Munoz, Wikipedia, August 6, 2018. Web, Sep. 3, 2018.
- ↑ Search results = au:Charles Munoz, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 25, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Audio / video
- About
- Charles Munoz at Time Being Books
- Charles Carrol Munoz at ObitTree
- "An English Teacher Whose Prose Turned Into Poetry Late In Life First A Novelist And A Scriptwriter, Charles Munoz, 66, Started Writing Poetry A Couple Of Years Ago. He's Now Bucks County Poet Laureate" at Philly.com
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