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Kay Amert

1947 – 2008

American scholar of printing and typography

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Lived 1947 – 2008 (aged 60–61). Kay Amert was a historian, printer, university teacher, printmaker and typographer.

Kay Amert (November 11, 1947 – September 5, 2008) was an American scholar of French Renaissance printing and a typographer and letterpress printer. She was the director of the University of Iowa Typography Library from 1972 to 2006 where she was a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Life and career Kay Amert was born on November 11, 1947, in Madison, South Dakota. Amert attended the University of Iowa in 1966 where she created her own private press imprint, the Seamark Press. Its first book was Holding Action, a compilation of poems by Sam Hamond which was published in 1969. Seamark press published thirteen more books containing work of American poets over the next sixteen years. Amert received the Collegiate Teaching Award. Robert Bringhurst edited her research into a book The Scythe and the Rabbit: Simon de Colines and the Culture of the Book in Renaissance Paris which was published posthumously in 2012.

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1947
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University of Iowa

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American scholar of printing and typography

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Kay Amert was born in 1947.

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Kay Amert died on 5 September 2008 in Iowa City.

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Kay Amert was a historian, printer, university teacher, printmaker and typographer.

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