Nicholas Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco
File:Nicholas Delbanco at Nicola's Books Ann Arbor Michigan.JPG Delbanco at a book signing event, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 15 February 2012
Born	1942 (age 81–82) London, England
Occupation	Writer, author, retired program director
Spouse(s)	Elena Greenhouse
Children	Francesca Delbanco

Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.

Life and career

Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor. He was educated at Harvard University, B.A. 1963; Columbia University, M.A. 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984–85. He was director of the MFA Program, and the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, until his retirement in 2002.

He has published twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. In 2011, saw the publication of Sherbrookes. This book brings his trilogy of novels ("Possession," "Sherbrookes," "Stillness" from, consecutively, 1977, '78 and '80 ) between the covers of a single book. Shebrookes is not simply a reissue of the three original novels together, but a revised edition of the trilogy without being a complete revision of the original story.

Delbanco has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980, and twice, a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship.

In 1962, while Delbanco was a student at Harvard, he was a student in a creative writing course at Harvard Summer School taught by John Updike, author and Harvard alum. Another student in this class was Jonathan Penner.

In the 1960s, Delbanco had a relationship with Carly Simon which is alluded to in her song You're So Vain.

Delbanco's daughter with Elena Greenhouse, Francesca, is married to director Nicholas Stoller. Elena Greenhouse's parents were cellist Bernard Greenhouse and Aurora de la Luz Fernandez y Menendez.

Works

Short stories

• Departure, Nicholas Delbanco, Five Points

Novels

• Grasse, 3/23/66. Lippincott. 1968.
• The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977–1980)
• Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness. Champagne, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-56478-587-9 (paper) ISBN 1-56478-587-4 (e-book)

Reviews

• In "The Count of Concord" we see a veteran novelist working at the height of his powers, pulling out every trick he's learned in the four decades since he published his first book, "The Martlet's Tale," at 23.

External links

• Author's Official Website
• University of Michigan faculty
• New York State Writers Institute
• American Legacy, Nicholas Delbanco, Boston Review, October/November 2004
• Nicholas Franklin Delbanco Biography, Jon Manchip White
• Nicholas Delbanco on Writers at Bennington, August 14 2007
• Nicholas Delbanco, Harper's Magazine