Alice Goodman

Alice Goodman
Born	1958 St. Paul, Minnesota
Occupation	poet, priest
Nationality	United states
Genre	poetry, opera
Spouse	Geoffrey Hill

Alice Goodman (born 1958) is an American poet and librettist. She is also an Anglican priest, working in England.

She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended and graduated from Breck School. She was educated at Harvard University and Cambridge where she studied English and American literature. She received her Master of Divinity degree from the Boston University School of Theology. She has written the libretti for two of the operas of John Adams (Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer) and the text of a cantata by Tarik O'Regan (A Letter of Rights). Goodman resumed writing with John Adams on the opera Doctor Atomic, but withdrew from this project after a year.

She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult. In 2006, Alice Goodman took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire including Fulbourn.

Personal life

She married the noted British poet Geoffrey Hill in 1987. The couple have one daughter, Alberta.

Sources

• Dyer, Richard, "'Klinghoffer' librettist revels in power of words", Boston Globe, 1 September 1991, (subscription access)
• White, Michael "Controversy gets another hearing", Los Angeles Times, 30 August 2005, p. E2
• Trinity College, Cambridge, Rev. Alice Goodman