Nicholas Delbanco | |
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 Delbanco at a book signing in 2012 | |
| Born | 1942 (age 81–82) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Elena Greenhouse |
| Children | 2, including Francesca Delbanco |
| Relatives |
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Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.
Nicholas Delbanco | |
|---|---|
| Delbanco at a book signing in 2012 | |
| Born | 1942 (age 81–82) London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Elena Greenhouse |
| Children | 2, including Francesca Delbanco |
| Relatives |
|
Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.
Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor. [1] [2] [3] He was educated at Harvard University, graduating with a B.A. in 1963; and at Columbia University, with an M.A. in 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–1984, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984–85. He was a visiting professor at such institutions also as Trinity College, Williams College, Columbia University and the University of Iowa. He was director of the MFA Program, and the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, until his retirement in 2015.
He has published 30 books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel is The Years (2013), and his most recent work of nonfiction is Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays (2017). In 2015, he published The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts. In 2016, he published the Omnibus collection, Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. In 2011, he republished Sherbrookes. This book brings his trilogy of novels (Possession, Sherbrookes, and Stillness from 1977, 1978, and 1980, respectively) between the covers of a single book. Sherbrookes is not simply a reissue of the three original novels together, but a revised edition of the trilogy without being a complete revision of the original story. [4]
Delbanco has served as chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, and as a judge for, among other contests, the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, [5] and twice, a National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship.
Delbanco is the brother of Thomas L. Delbanco, a physician and Harvard professor, and social critic and historian Andrew Delbanco. [6] [7] He is married to Elena Greenhouse, daughter of Beaux Arts Trio cellist Bernard Greenhouse. [8] They have two daughters, novelist and screenwriter Francesca Delbanco, and TIME editor Andrea Delbanco.
In 1962, while Delbanco was a student at Harvard, he was in a creative writing course at Harvard Summer School taught by John Updike, author and Harvard alumnus. [9] Another student in this class was Jonathan Penner.
In the 1960s, Delbanco might have had a relationship with Carly Simon, which might be alluded to in her song "You're So Vain", but Simon refuses to confirm. [10] . Simon made a comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single, "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)", which sampled "You're So Vain". Simon said about the song, "The apricot scarf" was worn by Delbanco.
"The Years", Little A books, 2017
title: "Curiouser and Curiouser" Ohio State University Press, 2017
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Andrew Delbanco says the atmosphere during his undergraduate years was markedly different from that of his brother's, Professor of Medicine Thomas L. Delbanco '61.
Ms. Delbanco ... is the daughter of literary eminence Nicholas Delbanco, author of a pile of respected books and director of the writing program at the University of Michigan. Her uncle, Andrew Delbanco, is 'a big muckety-muck' at Columbia, a director in the humanities and a literary critic.
