Nicholas Delbanco is a highly acclaimed writer who has authored 25 books, including novels, collections of short stories, and non-fiction works. His novels include The Count of Concord (2008), Spring and Fall (2006), The Vagabonds (2004), The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977), and The Martlet’s Tale (1966). Delbanco’s non-fiction works include The Art of Youth (2013), Lastingness: The Art of Old Age (2011), Group Portrait (1982), and Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France (2001). He has two collections of short fiction, About My Table and The Writer’s Trade and Other Stories (1990) and a collection of short stories.
Delbanco, a British-born American, received his B.A. from Harvard and his M.A. from Columbia University. He was a professor in the Department of Language and Literature at Bennington College from 1966–85 and directed the Hopwood Awards Program and the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Delbanco’s work has received numerous awards and honors including the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
