WriterNick Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he directs the prestigious Hopwood Awards. He is the founding Director of the Bennington Writing Workshops (together with the late John Gardner) and has received many awards—among them the J.S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and, twice, the National Endowment for the Arts Award in Fiction. He is the author of twenty-five books of fiction and non-fiction, as well as such textbooks as The Sincerest Form: Writing Fiction by Imitation, and Literature: Craft and Voice (w. Alan Cheuse). In January 2011 he published Lastingness: The Art of Old Age, and his trilogy of novels set in Vermont (Possession, Sherbrookes, Stillness) has just been re-released as a single volume, Sherbrookes.