David Leavitt
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David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. He is the author of Equal Affections, The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing, The Lost Language of Cranes, While England Sleeps (for the publication of which he was sued by Stephen Spender), The Body of Jonah Boyd, and numerous short stories. He is an English professor at the University of Florida, where he teaches in the creative writing program.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- The Lost Language of Cranes (1987)
- Equal Affections (1989)
- While England Sleeps (1993; revised and reissued 1995)
- The Page Turner (1998)
- Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing (2000)
- Florence, a Delicate Case (2002)
- The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004)
[edit] Collections
- Family Dancing (1984)
- A Place I've Never Been (1990)
- Arkansas (1997)
- The Marble Quilt (2001)
[edit] Non-Fiction
- Italian Pleasures (1996) (with Mark Mitchell)
- Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English
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- from 1748 to 1914 (1997) (with Mark Mitchell)
- In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany (2001) (with Mark Mitchell)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turning and the Invention of the Computer (2005)
[edit] External links
- David Leavitt's website at the University of Florida
- 1989 Audio Interview with David Leavitt by Don Swaim
- Econoculture Interview, February 2 2006 by Paul Morton
