Edwin Zimmerman

Edwin Zimmerman is the author of a book of poems, A Piercing Happiness (2011). Individual poems of his appeared in journals and anthologies, such as Partisan Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and The Other Side of the Hill II. He was an active member of the Capitol Hill Poetry Group and served on the Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Zimmerman was born in New York to immigrant parents, graduated from Columbia College, and served in WWII in Japan before returning to New York to earn his LLB from Columbia University Law School. He practiced law, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, taught at the Stanford University Law School, and moved to DC in 1965, to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice. He became a partner at Covington and Burling, practicing antitrust law. Zimmerman, an avid collector of Turkoman rugs, served as Board President of the Textile Museum. He was married for 56 years, and had three children.