Linda Leavell
Linda Leavell is an American writer, scholar, and professor. Her biography of Marianne Moore won the PEN Weld Award for Biography and the Plutarch Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[1]
Life
[edit]Leavell graduated from Baylor University and received her PhD in English from Rice University. She was a professor of American literature at Rhodes College for one year and at Oklahoma State University for 24 years.[1]
Works
[edit]- Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color , Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780807119860
- Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. ISBN 9780374710996[2][3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Linda Leavell | author of Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore". www.lindaleavell.com.
- ^ Wilmers, Mary-Kay (2015-12-03). "What a Mother". London Review of Books. pp. 19–22. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (2014-02-12). "'Holding On Upside Down,' a Biography of Marianne Moore". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
- ^ Vendler, Helen (2013-11-07). "Badger, Mole, and Marianne Moore". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
External links
[edit]- "Linda Leavell – author of Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore". Lindaleavell.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- "Linda Leavell – Authors – Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- "Linda Leavell : Biographers International Organization". Biographersinternational.org. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
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