Brad Leithauser

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Brad Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. He is the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and is a visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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[edit] Biography

Leithauser is 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. His wife, the poet Mary Jo Salter, is also a professor at Mount Holyoke.

Leithauser's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, and The New Yorker.

[edit] Awards & Grants

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry collections

  • Hundreds of Fireflies (1982)
  • Cats of the Temple (1986)
  • The Mail from Anywhere (1990)
  • The Odd Last Thing She Did (1998)
  • Curves and Angles (2006)

[edit] Novels

  • Equal Distance (1985)
  • Hence (1989)
  • Seaward (1993)
  • The Friends of Freeland (1997)
  • A Few Corrections (2001)
  • Darlington's Fall: A Novel in Verse (2002)

[edit] Essay collections

  • Penchants and Places (1995)

[edit] Edited volumes

[edit] External links