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I was born at Doctors Hospital on East End Avenue in New York City on October 31, 1956. My father was Theodore Bawer, M.D., a New York-born internist, writer, and medical editor whose Roman Catholic, Polish-speaking parents had immigrated to America during World War One from what was then the Austrian Empire; my mother was born in Florence, South Carolina, to Methodist and Baptist parents whose ancestors had fought in the American Revolution and on both sides of the Civil War and who traced their roots back to England, Wales, Scotland, and France.
I grew up mostly in Queens, attending Public School 49 in Middle Village, Junior High School 119 in Glendale, and Newtown High School in Elmhurst. I was an undergraduate and then a graduate student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, where I earned a B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. in English and taught courses in literature and composition.
Between 1983 and 1993, I contributed literary criticism every month to The New Criterion, which at that time was a journal of literature and the arts. At various times during this period I also worked as literary editor for Arrival, a short-lived Northern California magazine; as a writing tutor for honors students at Adelphi University on Long Island; as movie reviewer for The American Spectator, a political monthly in Washington, D.C.; and as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle (whose in-house publication, the NBCC Journal, I edited).
