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Thomas Lynch (poet)
American writer and undertaker (b. 1948)
For other persons named Thomas Lynch, see Thomas Lynch (disambiguation).
Thomas Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Genre | Poetry |
Thomas Lynch (born 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet, essayist, and undertaker.
Early life
Lynch was educated by nuns and Christian Brothers at Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Lynch then went to university and mortuary school, from which he graduated in 1973.
He took over his family's funeral home in Milford, Michigan in the 1970s, though he has since stepped back from the role.[1][2] Lynch married in 1972 and divorced in 1984.
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He later remarried to Mary Tata in 1991. He has a daughter and three sons.
In 1970 Lynch went to Ireland for the first time, to find his family and read William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, an experience he recounts in his book Booking Pa