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.