David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction. Read full biography of David Leavitt →
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of... →
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close... →
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you... →
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike... →
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the... →
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction.