Andrew Carroll
| Andrew Carroll | |
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Andrew Carroll
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| Born |
September 27, 1969 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor's degree |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Period | 1991-present |
| Subject |
History Military history Volunteerism |
| Notable works |
Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars |
Andrew Carroll (born September 27, 1969) is an American author, editor, activist, and historian. He is best known as the author of the 1999 New York Times best-selling Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the 2001 New York Times best-selling book War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, which was later turned into an episode of the television program American Experience.
Carroll was born in Washington, D.C., to Thomas Edmund and Marea Grace Carroll on September 27, 1969. He attended Columbia University in New York City, receiving his bachelor's degree in history in 1993. In May 1992, while a junior at Columbia, Carroll was inspired by a lecture by the Joseph Brodsky (the Nobel Prize-winning Poet Laureate of the United States) to found the American Poetry and Literacy Project (APLP). Meeting in a Greenwich Village café in late 1992, Carroll and Brodsky decided that the APLP would distribute poetry books for free to members of the public. Carroll, APLP's executive director, persuaded the Book-of-the-Month Club to donate thousands of copies of poetry books to the APLP. The books were distributed in hotels, hospitals, and homeless shelters and aboard airlines. By 1994, more than 12,500 poetry books had been distributed. Another 15,000 books were given away in 1997. Carroll went on a nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets in 1998, promoting the APLP and distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms, train stations, and jury rooms in courthouses.Volkswagen later paid APLP to put 40,000 poetry books in the glove boxes of its cars in April 1999, and Target Corporation paid APLP for 300,000 books to give away to their customers. Another 100,000 copies of poetry books were distributed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In early 1998, he edited the poetry anthology 101 Great American Poems.
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