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To pay for my father's funeral I borrowed money from people he already owed money to. One called him a nobody. No, I said, he was a failure. You can't remember a nobody's name, that's why they're called nobodies. Failures are unforgettable.

Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz

Born: 1945 (age 81)

Bio: Philip Schultz is an American poet, and the founder/director of The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City.

Known for:

The Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse (2014)
Failure (2007)
The holy worm of praise (2002)
My Dyslexia

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