David Plante received his B.A. from Boston
College and studied at L'Universite de Louvain, Belgium. He is
the author of the novels The Ghost of Henry James,
The Family (nominated for The National Book Award),
The Woods, The Country, The Foreigner,
The Native, The Accident, Annunciation,
and The Age of Terror. He has had stories and profiles
in The New Yorker, and features in The New York
Times, Esquire and Vogue. He is the
recipient of awards from the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the British
Arts Council Bursary. He has recently been elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature, England. He has been writer
in residence at the Gorki Institute of Literature (Moscow),
L'Université du Québec à Montréal, Adelphi University, King's
College, Cambridge, England, Tulsa University, and the
University of East
Anglia.
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