David Plante

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David Plante (born March 4, 1940) is an American novelist.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works and themes 3 Bibliography 4 External Links

[edit] Biography

He was born David Robert Plante in Providence, Rhode Island, of French-Canadian and Indian descent. He is a 1961 graduate of Boston College and a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

Plante has written in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. He has homes in New York and London.

[edit] Works and themes

His novels examine homosexuality in a variety of contexts, but notably in the milieu of large, working-class, Catholic families of French Canadian background. His male characters range from openly gay to sexually ambiguous.

Plante’s work, for which he has been nominated for the National Book Award, includes Difficult Women (1983), a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer and the widely-praised Francoeur Trilogy--The Family (1978), The Country (1981) and The Woods (1982).

[edit] Bibliography

• The Ghost of Henry James (1970)
• Slides (1970)
• Relatives (1974)
• The Darkness of the Body (1974)
• The Foreigner (1984)
• The Catholic (1986)
• The Native (1988)
• The Accident (1991)
• Annunciation (1994)
• The Age of Terror (1999)
• American Ghosts (2005)
• ABC (2007)

[edit] External Links

• Review of Plante's ABC: A Novel from The New York Review of Books
• Interview on Bookworm, January 10, 2008