Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. He has published twenty-eight books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novels are The Count of Concord and Spring and Fall, while his most recent works of nonfiction are Lastingness: The Art of Old Age and The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts. As an editor, he has compiled the work of, among others, John Gardner and Bernard Malamud. The long-term director of the MFA program as well as the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, he has served as chair of the fiction panel for the National Book Awards and a judge for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.
“The tentative arc of Lawrence and Hermia’s revived romance, the
alternately thrilling and terrifying prospect of beginning again,
is beautifully presented.” —Boston Globe
“[Delbanco] shows us his ingenuity in recounting the lives of two
people who have had their ‘ups and downs.’” —Buffalo News
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