Background
Leithauser, Brad Edward was born on February 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Harold Edward and Gladys Garner Leithauser.
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"Brad Leithauser's criticism and 'high reportage' has a vivid edge over that of most of his contemporaries. We hear in it the voice of a writer and poet, speaking not only to a wider public with authority but also to his peers in poetry and fiction. The result is of compelling intelligence and range (science and the arts, censorship and the spirit of place). Not to be missed." -- George Steiner In his first collection of essays and criticism, the celebrated poet and novelist focuses on subjects exceptionally close to his heart. He considers the ghost story as a literary form and through the prism of two of its prominent practitioners -- Henry James and M. R. James. He writes about the spiritual world of Flannery O'Connor, the alternate universe of Salman Rushdie's Satanic verses, the mind of H. G. Wells. He brilliantly makes clear for the layperson the possibilities of computer chess and the future of thinking machines, and acquaints us with the biographies of three mathematical geniuses -- Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and India's Ramanujan. He also writes about two countries he's lived in and feels passionate about -- introducing us to Japan through essays on recently published books by Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, and Murakami; and to Iceland with an homage to Independent People by the Nobel Prize-winning Halldor Laxness, the novel Leithauser calls the "book of my life." Provocative, witty, thoughtful, Leithauser's new book has the power to kindle and ignite our interest in the uncommon people, places, and things that deeply engage him.
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A year after his beloved wife's drowning, Terry Seward, a Washington lawyer and Princeton grad, spends a weekend in Virginia's Dismal Swamp, where his wife appears to him in a glow of white light. 10,000 first printing. BOMC Alt. Tour.
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Once again Brad Leithauser's poems evince a profound love of nature and a mastery of poetic forms. But they also reflect a deepening interest in storytelling, as Leithauser, who has also published four novels, here brings the narrative drive that propels his fiction into the domain of verse. With compassion and imagination, Leithauser enters into the mysteries of lives both real and fictional: a middle-aged businessman who marries the identical twin of his deceased wife; a beautiful young woman whose life ends on a beautiful summer day; an elderly couple conducting a confused, touching romance in a nursing home; a young World War II soldier returning, wounded, to his fiancee. And, as always, Leithauser's poems about the natural world are both coolly precise and warmly engaging. A marsh in March, the play of sunlight underneath a bridge, a long-delayed spring, the contemplation of a moonless earth--all lead the poet, and ultimately the reader, into meditation and wonder.
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novelist university professor poet
Leithauser, Brad Edward was born on February 27, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Harold Edward and Gladys Garner Leithauser.
After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he is now on faculty at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
He is an alumnus of the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He worked for three years as a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan. Leithauser has lived in Japan, Italy, England, Iceland, and France.
In January, 2007, Leithauser joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Leithauser"s work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, The New Yorker, and The New Criterion. He is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
(A year after his beloved wife's drowning, Terry Seward, a...)
("Brad Leithauser's criticism and 'high reportage' has a v...)
(Once again Brad Leithauser's poems evince a profound love...)
Married Mary Jo Salter, August 2, 1980. Children: Emily, Hilary.