News : New Biographies by Former Fellows
New Biographies by Former Fellows
The Leon Levy Center for Biography congratulates three former Fellows on the upcoming publication of biographies written in whole or part during their fellowship year: Wendy Lesser, editor of The Threepenny Review and LLCB Fellow 2009-10, will publish Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, with Yale University Press (March 2011). The 2008-9 Fellow, poet Molly Peacock, will publish The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72, a biography of 18th-century artist Mary Granville Delany, with BloomsburyUSA (April 2011). Brooklyn College Professor of English and American Studies and 2008-9 Biography Fellow James Davis will publish his biography, Quite To Himself: Eric Walrond, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Caribbean Diaspora in the fall of 2011 (Columbia University Press).
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