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DAVID LEAVITT American Authors Series. In conversation with Stefano Albertini. “Italian food and cooking”.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton University.

His published fiction includes the short-story collections Family Dancing (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award), A Place I’ve Never Been, Arkansas and The Marble Quilt, as well as the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, The Body of Jonah Boyd, and The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award). At the University of Florida, he is a member of the Creative Writing faculty as well as the founder and editor of the literary journal Subtropics.

 

STEFANO ALBERTINI, Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU University, is Clinical Associate Professor of Italian at New York University. Ha has a Ph.D. 1997 in Italian, Stanford University; and a M.A. 1991, Virginia University; and laurea in Political History, Università di Parma.

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