Nicholas Delbanco is a British-born American who received his BA from Harvard and his MA from Columbia University. An editor and author of more than thirty books, Delbanco has received numerous awards—among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he served as Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and of the Hopwood Awards.

Praise for Nicholas Delbanco"Nicholas Delbanco writes like an inspired maniac, with a brilliant outpouring of image and idea." —Hudson Review"Delbanco’s book of narrative riffs and meditations is a wonder. He may know more than just about anyone about the serious play that it literary life, and he writes of it with great spirit and flair.” —Lorrie Moore“Delbanco, like Malraux, has extended his method to explore a different context; a sensibility of enormous sophistication stretches itself to take in both the private and public domains . . . An excellent writer is among us, and if we neglect him . . .we shall have to apologize to posterity.” —John Leonard, New York Times“The wisdom of a superb, experienced writer and inspired teacher is here distilled for our pleasure. We have much to learn from Delbanco’s maturity, broad perspective and erudition, his devotion to literature and to all those who struggle to achieve it.” —Philip Lopate