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Introduction
Hugh Bernard Fox Jr. (February 12, 1932 – September 4, 2011) was a writer, novelist, poet and anthropologist and one of the founders of the Pushcart Prize for literature. He has been published in numerous literary magazines and was the first writer to publish a critical study of Charles Bukowski. He converted to Judaism later in life despite having been a Catholic. He had six children, Hugh B. Fox, III, Cecilia Fox, Marcella (Kevin Brown) Fox, Margaret Sadock, Alexandra E. (Ray Barker) Fox, and Christopher Fox; four grandchildren, Gabrielle Brown, Rebecca Sadock, Alexander Sadock, and Beatrice Barker;
Personal

Hugh Fox junior was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Chicago in 1932. His father was Hugh Fox Senior. His father was a doctor of medicine and had a general practice during most of his career. Hugh Fox junior spent his childhood studying violin, piano, composition and opera with his Viennese teacher Zerlina Muhlman Metzger and was a member of her All Children’s’ Grand Opera run. His first wife was the Peruvian poet and professor Lucia Fox Lockert. His second wife was Nona Grimes. His third wife was Maria Bernadete Costa in Brazil and they married in1978.
Education

He attended St. Frances De Paula Grammar School and graduated in 1946. He attended Leo Catholic High School, on the south west side of Chicago. He became interested in literature and the arts at a young age, and attended Chicago’s Jesuit College, Loyola University. Initially he studied pre-med at the urging of his father but decided to get a Ph.D. in literature instead. He received a M.A. degree in English from Loyola University in Chicago. His Ph.D. was in American Literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign).
Career

He was the founder and on the board of directors of the International Organization of Independent Publishers (COSMEP) from 1968-1996 when COSMEP was disbanded. He was the editor of Ghost Dance: The International Quarterly of Experimental Poetry from 1968-1995. He was the Latin American editor of Western World Review & North American Review, during the 60′s. He was a contributing reviewer on Smith/ Pulpsmith, Choice etc. He had been a contributing reviewer to SPR and SMR. He was listed in Who’s Who: The Two Thousand Most Important Writers in the Last Millenium, Dictionary of Middlewestern Writers, and The International Who’s Who.

He was an associate professor at Loyola University (now Loyola-Marymount University) in Los Angeles for 10 years from 1958 to 1968. He was a professor at Michigan State University (MSU) from 1968 to 1998. While at MSU, he taught Freshman Composition in the American Thought and Language Department. When he retired, he was a Professor Emeritus. He often worked abroad while a professor at Loyola University and MSU.

He received Fulbright Professorships at the University of Hermosillo in Mexico in 1961, the Instituto Pedagogico de Caracas and Universidad Catolica in Caracas from 1964 to 1966. He was a John Carter Brown Library Fellow at Brown University in 1968 (Studies in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish economics and avant-garde literature). He received an Organization of American States Grant to study Latin American Studies/Argentinean Literature at the University of Buenos Aires in 1971. He was Fulbright professor at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil from 1978-1980. He studied Latin American literature for one year at Mendoza Foundation (Caracas) with Mariano Picon-Salas. He received an OAS grant to act as an archaeologist in the Atacama Desert of Chile in 1986.

Alphabetical List of Works
10170, Trout Creek Press, Parkdale, Oregon, 1986. (Connie Fox)

40 Poems, Colecin Nuestro Tiempo, Caracas, Venezuela, 1966.

76 pages of The Guernica Cycle — The Year Franco Died. Cherry Valley Editions, Cherry Valley, New York, 1986.

Alex, Rubicon Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Spring, 2008. Cover by M.B.Costa-Fox.

Almazora 42, Laughing Bear Press, San Jose, California, 1982.

America Hoy: Un Cursillo En Estudios Norteamericanos, M.A.Garcia, Caracas, Venezuela, 1965.

An Analytical Checklist of Books from Something Else Press, published as Vol.6, No.1, of the Small Press Review (Issue Number 21, March, 1974).

Apotheosis of Olde Towne, Fat Frog Press, San Bruno, California, 1968.
Approaching: Poems of Brazil, CreateSpace, 2011