Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.

Nicholas Delbanco
Delbanco at a book signing in 2012
Born1942 (age 80–81)
London, England
OccupationWriter
SpouseElena Greenhouse
Children2, including Francesca Delbanco
Relatives

Life and career

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. Shebrookes 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.

Personal life

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]

Works

Short stories
  • The collection, About My Table, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co, 1983
  • The collection, The Writer's Trade, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co.

Novels
  • The Martlet's Tale. Lippincott. 1966.
  • Grasse, 3/23/66. Lippincott. 1968.
  • Consider Sappho Burning. Morrow, 1969.
  • In the middle distance. Morrow. 1971.
  • Small Rain. William Morrow & Co. 1975. ISBN 9780688028855.
  • The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977–1980)
  • In the Name of Mercy. Warner. 1995. ISBN 978-0-446-51711-9.
  • Delbanco, Nicholas (2000). What Remains. Warner Books. ISBN 978-0-446-67779-0.
  • Old Scores. Warner Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-446-67450-8.
  • The Vagabonds. Warner Books. 2004. ISBN 978-0-446-53002-6.
  • Spring and Fall. Grand Central Publishing. 2006. ISBN 978-1-58547-905-4.
  • Delbanco, Nicholas (2008). The Count of Concord. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1-56478-495-7.
  • Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness. Champagne, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56478-587-9 (paper) ISBN 1-56478-587-4 (e-book)

"The Years", Little A books, 2017

Nonfiction

title: "Curiouser and Curiouser" Ohio State University Press, 2017

Editor
  • Delbanco, Nicholas (1990). Speaking of writing. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06422-9.
  • The Sincerest Form, Writing Fiction by Imitation, publisher-McGraw-Hill, 2004
  • Craft & Voice, an Introduction to Literature (w. Alan Cheuse), publisher—McGraw-Hill, 2012

References
  1. Nicholas (Franklin) Delbanco Summary.
  2. "Delbanco, Nicholas 1942– | Encyclopedia.com".
  3. "Paid Notice: Deaths DELBANCO, KURT". The New York Times. 19 November 2007.
  4. Owchar, Nick (28 August 2011). "Nicholas Delbanco: The Writer's Craft". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  5. "Nicholas Delbanco – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  6. Martinez, Barbara E. (2 June 1998). "English Professor Brings Literature Outside Class". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 25 June 2020. 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.
  7. Jacobs, Alexandra (26 January 2004). "The Book on Miss Delbanco: Ask Her Anything". Observer.com. Retrieved 25 June 2020. 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.
  8. Lacher, Irene (9 October 2005). "Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller". The New York Times.
  9. Begley, Adam, Updike, 2014, Harper Collins, p. 226
  10. Friedman, Megan (18 November 2015). "Carly Simon Finally Reveals Who "You're So Vain" Is About". Redbook.
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