David Plante

Professor

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.