Brad Leithauser\, noted American novelist\, poet\, essayist\, and teacher\, will be at Griffin Bay Bookstore on Thursday evening\, March 18\, 7\:00 pm to discuss his latest novel\, The Art Student’s War. Set in Detroit during the Second World War\, the novel gives us a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels\, a novel in verse\, four previous volumes of poetry\, a collection of light verse\, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Grant\, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently a professor in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, Time\, and The New Yorker.
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