Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities
608-263-3613
M.F.A., Cornell University, 1982
BA, summa cum laude, St. Lawrence University, 1978
Honorary doctorates in literature: St. Lawrence University, 2004 Lawrence University, 2000
Creative writing; literary reviews and essays.
Work translated into over a dozen languages includes the novels Anagrams and Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, and the story collections Self-Help, Like Life, and Birds of America. Other prose pieces have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Yale Review, The New Yorker , The Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere.