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Capricorn
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Celebrities born on December 24
Born in 1950
Born in Hawthorne, California
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Dana Gioia
Michael Dana Gioia is an American poet, literary critic, translator, and essayist. Gioia was born into a working-class family of Mexican and Sicilian working class and raised in Roman Catholic parish schools in Hawthorne and Gardena, California. After becoming the first member of her family to attend college, Gioia graduated from Stanford University and Harvard University. He spent the first fifteen years of his literary career writing at night while working as senior executive for General Foods in New York City. Since the early 1980s, Gioia has been seen as part of a literary movement of American poetry known as Neo-Formalism, the advocacy for the continued writing of poetry in rhymes and meters, and New Narrative, advocates the telling of non-autobiographical stories.
BornDecember 24, 1950, Hawthorne, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, critic, poet, businessman
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University (B.A.), Harvard University (M.A.), Stanford Business School (M.B.A.)
Notable awardsPresidential Citizens Medal (2008), Laetare Medal (2010)
RelativesTed Gioia

About Dana Gioia

Poet Dana Gioia was born on December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, California, United States (He's 74 years old now).

Poet, author, and Chairman of the United States National Endowment for the Arts (2003-2009). His critically acclaimed poetry collections include The Gods of Winter and Interrogations at Noon, the latter of which won the American Book Award in 2002.

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Dana Gioia before becoming famous

Dana Gioia was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1950 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked in marketing at General Foods Corporation, where he promoted Jell-O products.

Achievement of Dana Gioia

He began teaching at the University of Southern California in 2011.

Dana Gioia's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He married Mary Elizabeth Hiecke in 1980. In his poem"Planting a Sequoia", Gioia remembered one of his three children who died as a baby.

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In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by then-US President US President George W. Bush.

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Dana Gioia Income & Net worth

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