Davis Guggenheim [SEP] father
within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time ("An Inconvenient Truth", "It Might Get Loud", and "Waiting for "Superman"").
Early life.
He was born Philip Davis Guggenheim in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, the son of Marion Davis (née Streett) and film director and producer Charles Guggenheim. His father was Jewish, whereas his mother was Episcopalian. He graduated from the Potomac School (McLean, Virginia) (1979), from Sidwell
buoyed by a Guggenheim Fellowship, he remained in Davis, California, for five years. He and his wife ultimately divorced and his daughter returned to Beijing to continue her education.
For the 2000-01 academic year, Bei Dao took up an appointment as the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College. During that year, an essay collection, "Blue House", and a poetry collection, "Unlock", were published in English. In 2001, after his father became seriously ill,