David Leavitt
Professor
David Leavitt graduated from Yale
University in 1983 with a BA in English. He is the author of the short story
collections Family
Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the National Book
Critics’ Circle Award), A Place I’ve Never Been, Arkansas,
and The Marble Quilt, as well as the novels The Lost Language
of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps (Finalist
for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner,
Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing, and The Body of Jonah Boyd.
In 2002, he published Florence, A Delicate Case as part of Bloomsbury’s
series “The Writer and the City.” His Collected Stories was
published in 2003 by Bloomsbury. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing
and the Origins of the Computer appeared in 2005 and the novel The
Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner prize and shortlisted for the IMPAC/Dublin award) appeared in 2007. Professor Leavitt is also
the editor of Subtropics,
the literary magazine edited in the Department of English.
With Mark Mitchell, Professor Leavitt is co-author of Italian Pleasures and In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany, and co-editor of the anthologies The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories and Pages Passed from Hand to Hand. His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s, Esquire, Vogue, The Paris Review, DoubleTake, The Southwest Review, Tin House, Food & Wine and Travel and Leisure. He has also taught at Princeton University.
A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Institute of Catalan Letters in Barcelona Spain, Professor Leavitt was recently named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library.
Contact
- office: Turlington 4101
- voice: (352) 294-2806
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <dleavitt@ufl.edu>