Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.

Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor. He was educated at Harvard University, B.A. 1963; Columbia University, M.A. 1966.He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984–85. He was a visiting Professor at such institutions also as Trinity College, Williams College, Columbia University and the University of Iowa.He was director of the MFA Program, and the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, until his retirement in 2015.

He has published thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. His most recent novel (2013) is "The Years," his most recent work of non-fiction, (2017) is "Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays."In 2015 he published "The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts."2016 saw publication of the Omnibus collection, "Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White."In 2011, he republished Sherbrookes. This book brings his trilogy of novels ("Possession," "Sherbrookes," "Stillness" from, consecutively, 1977, '78 and '80 ) between the covers of a single book. Shebrookes is not simply a reissue of the three original novels together, but a revised edition of the trilogy without being a complete revision of the original story.

Delbanco has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, and as a judge for, among other contests, the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize.He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, and twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.

Delbanco is the brother of Thomas L. Delbanco, a physician and Harvard professor, and the social critic and historian Andrew Delbanco. He is married to Elena Greenhouse, daughter of Beaux Arts Trio cellist Bernard Greenhouse. They have two daughters: novelist and screenwriter Francesca Delbanco, and TIME magazine editor Andrea Delbanco.

In 1962, while Delbanco was a student at Harvard, he was a student in a creative writing course at Harvard Summer School taught by John Updike, author and Harvard alum. Another student in this class was Jonathan Penner. In the 1960s, Delbanco had a relationship with Carly Simon which is alluded to in her song You're So Vain.

Short stories

• The collection, About My Table, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co, 1983
• The collection, The Writer's Trade, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co.

Novels

• The Martlet's Tale. Lippincott. 1966.
• Grasse, 3/23/66. Lippincott. 1968.
• Consider Sappho Burning.Morrow, 1969.
• In the middle distance. Morrow. 1971.
• Small Rain. William Morrow & Co. 1975.
• The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977–1980)
• In the Name of Mercy. Warner. 1995. ISBN 978-0-446-51711-9.
• What Remains. Warner Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-446-67779-0. Nicholas Delbanco.
• Old Scores. Warner Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-446-67450-8.
• The Vagabonds. Warner Books. 2004. ISBN 978-0-446-53002-6.
• Spring and Fall. Grand Central Publishing. 2006. ISBN 978-1-58547-905-4.
• The Count of Concord. Dalkey Archive Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-56478-495-7. Nicholas Delbanco.
• Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness. Champagne, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56478-587-9 (paper) ISBN 1-56478-587-4 (e-book)

"The Years," Little A books, 2017

Non-fiction

• Group Portrait: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and H.G. Wells. William Morrow & Co. 1982.
• The Countess of Stanlein Restored. Verso. 2001. ISBN 978-1-85984-761-9. Nicholas Delbanco.
• The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life. Columbia University Press. 15 October 2001. ISBN 978-0-231-11543-8.
• Running in Place. Grove Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8021-3809-5.
• The Sincerest Form, Fiction by Imitation. McGraw-Hill. 6 October 2003. ISBN 978-0-07-241471-4.
• Anywhere Out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, and Death. Columbia University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-231-13384-5. Nicholas Delbanco.
• Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. Grand Central Publishing. 24 January 2011. ISBN 978-0-446-19964-3.
• The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin and the Nature of First Acts. New Harvest. 19 November 2013. ISBN 978-0544114463.

title: "Curiouser and Curiouser" Ohio State University Press, 2017

Editor

• Speaking of writing. University of Michigan Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-472-06422-9. Nicholas Delbanco.
• The Sincerest Form, Writing Fiction by Imitation, publisher-McGraw-Hill, 2004
• Craft & Voice, an Introduction to Literature (w. Alan Cheuse), publisher—McGraw-Hill, 2012

• In "The Count of Concord" we see a veteran novelist working at the height of his powers, pulling out every trick he's learned in the four decades since he published his first book, "The Martlet's Tale," at 23.