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Murphy's Law
Give your students (and yourself) permission to write lousy first drafts.
 

“I wish Peter Murphy had been my high school teacher.”

Writer, Bethlehem, PA

About Peter Murphy
  • Master Teacher for the New Jersey Council for the
    Humanities; Poetry consultant to The Geraldine R.
    Dodge Foundation

  • Educational advisor to PBS; Special consultant
    to Bill Moyers’ Fooling with Words

  • Longtime reader for Educational Testing Service

  • Recipient of fellowships from The Folger Shakespeare
    Library, The National Endowment for the Humanities,
    The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Yaddo and
    The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts


    Peter Murphy was twice named a Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on
    Presidential Scholars. Photo Courtesy New York Times


  • Author of Stubborn Child; essays and poems
    published in The American Book Review,
    Commonweal, English Journal, The New York Times,
    The Shakespeare Quarterly
    and elsewhere

  • 29 years high school teaching experience;
    10 years college teaching experience