Brad Leithauser

Brad Leithauser (A Few Corrections, Curves and Angles, Darlington's Fall, The Art Student's War, The Friends of Freeland, The Oldest Word for Dawn)

Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five previous novels, a novel in verse, five volumes of poetry, two collections of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2005, the induction by the president of Iceland into the Order of the Falcon for his writings about Nordic literature. He is a professor in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He and his wife, Mary Jo Salter, divide their time between Baltimore, Maryland, and Amherst, Massachusetts. (added from Random House)… (more)

Brad Leithauser signs The Art Student's War.

The Art Student's War reading and signing. The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty woman, in a crowded wartime city, a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, climbs aboard a streetcar. She is heading home, where another war-a domestic war-is about to erupt. Rich, humorous, and grippingly written, The Art Student's War is Leithauser's finest novel to date (QueenAlyss)… (more)

Brad Leithauser signs The Art Student's War.

The Art Student's War reading and signing. The story opens on a sunny spring day as a pretty woman, in a crowded wartime city, a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday, climbs aboard a streetcar. She is heading home, where another war-a domestic war-is about to erupt. Rich, humorous, and grippingly written, The Art Student's War is Leithauser's finest novel to date (QueenAlyss)… (more)