Linda Leavell

Linda Leavell is an American writer, scholar, and professor. Her biography of Marianne Moore won the PEN Weld Award for Biography and the Plutarch Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. ^[1]

Life

Leavell graduated from Baylor University and received her PhD in English from Rice University. She was a professor of American literature at Rhodes College for one year and at Oklahoma State University for 24 years. ^[1]

Works

• Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color , Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN   9780807119860
• Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. ISBN   9780374710996 ^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. "Linda Leavell | author of Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore". www.lindaleavell.com.
2. Wilmers, Mary-Kay (2015-12-03). "What a Mother". London Review of Books. pp. 19–22. ISSN   0260-9592 . Retrieved 2018-03-02.
3. Cotter, Holland (2014-02-12). "'Holding On Upside Down,' a Biography of Marianne Moore". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-02.
4. Vendler, Helen (2013-11-07). "Badger, Mole, and Marianne Moore". The New York Review of Books. ISSN   0028-7504 . Retrieved 2018-03-02.

External links

• "Linda Leavell – author of Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore". Lindaleavell.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
• "Linda Leavell – Authors – Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
• "Linda Leavell : Biographers International Organization". Biographersinternational.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.