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David Leavitt

Professor
Creative Writing (Fiction)

David Leavitt, Distinguished Professor of English, is the author of several story collections and novels, including Family Dancing (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize), The Lost Language of Cranes (adapted into a BBC film), While England Sleeps (currently under development as a television miniseries), Arkansas: Three Novellas, The Indian Clerk (shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award), The Two Hotel Francforts, and Shelter in Place. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, among them The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, Leavitt is a NYPL Literary Lion and the winner, in 2022, of the Premio Nino Gennaro and the Orbetello Book Prize. At UF he teaches in the English department’s program in Creative Writing and is the editor of the literary journal Subtropics. Courses he has taught, in addition to fiction workshops, have included “The Writer as Critic,” “Research and Imaginative Writing,” and “Politics and the Arts, 1914-2019.” He is at work on a novel about Americans and Italians.

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