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Life

Harvard University

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, B.A. 1963; Columbia University

Columbia University

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, M.A. 1966. He taught at Bennington College

Bennington College

Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...

, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College

Skidmore College

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, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984-85. He was director of the MFA Program, and the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, 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

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

in 1980, and twice, a National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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Writing Fellowship.

Short stories

Departure, Nicholas Delbanco, Five Points

Novels

The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977–1980)
Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness. Champagne, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-564-78587-9 (paper) ISBN 1564785874 (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 references

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