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Full Name: Agha Shahid Ali
Biography:
(1949-2001) Poet. Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, India, and died in Amherst, Massachusetts. He taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1989 Broome County
Ali was a visiting professor of creative writing at the State University of New York in Binghamton, New York in the spring of 1989. 
1949 (Unknown) County
Agha Shahid Ali was born in New Delhi, India, on February 4, 1949. 
2001 (Unknown) County
Agha Shahid Ali died at his brother's home in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 8, 2001. 
2000 (Unknown) County
Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English
(Pub: Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England ISBN: 0819564389 / 978-0819564382)
Collection of ghazals by 107 poets, edited by Agha Shahid Ali. 
2001 (Unknown) County
Agha Shahid Ali is interred at Northampton, Massachusetts. 
2003 (Unknown) County
Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals
(Pub: New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc ISBN: 0393051951 / 978-0393051957)
Poetry. 
2001 (Unknown) County
Rooms Are Never Finished
(Pub: New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. ISBN: 0393041492 / 978-0393041491)
Poetry. Finalist for the National Book Award, 2001. 
1997 (Unknown) County
The Country Without a Post Office
(Pub: New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc. ISBN: 0393040577 / 978-0393040579)
Poetry. 
1992 (Unknown) County
The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems
(Pub: New Delhi, India: Viking Penguin ISBN: 0670845248 / 978-0670845248)
Poetry. 
1991 (Unknown) County
A Nostalgist's Map of America
(Pub: New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Inc. ISBN: 0393030210 / 978-0393030211)
Poetry. 
1987 (Unknown) County
A Walk Through the Yellow Pages
(Pub: Tucson, Arizona: Sun / Gemini Press ISBN: 0933313063 / 978-0933313064)
Poetry. 
1987 (Unknown) County
The Half-Inch Himalayas
(Pub: Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 0819521310 / 978-0819521316)
Poetry. 
1979 (Unknown) County
In Memory of Begum Akhtar and Other Poems
(Pub: Calcutta, India: Writers Workshop ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1972 (Unknown) County
Bone Sculpture
(Pub: Calcutta, India: Writers Workshop Publication ISBN: )
Poetry. 
1987 Oneida County
Ali was an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, from 1987 to 1993. 
2001 Kings County
Ali lived in Brooklyn, New York, at the time of his death. 
? New York County
Ali taught at Baruch College, Manhattan, New York. 

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