Brad Leithauser, Guest Blogger January 17 - 23

This week we welcome Brad Leithauser as our guest blogger.  Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently The Art Student's War, five volumes of poetry, a novel in verse, two collections of light verse, and a book of essays. Among the many awards and honors he has received are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He served for a year as Time magazine’s theater critic. He is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 2005, Leithauser was inducted into the Order of the Falcon by the president of Iceland for his writings about Nordic literature.

Welcome, Brad

-- sdh

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Comments

[Marissa Despain]

I am a HUGE fan of Leithausers. Thanks for recruiting him for this. What a coup!

[Maureen Anthony]

Just curious. Was Brad Leithauser's grandfather a physician in Detroit?

[brad leithauser]

Yes. My grandfather was a physician on the East Side of Detroit. I never met him, but he wrote a book called Early Ambulation. I incorporated this into my new novel about Detroit, The Art Student's War.