Lis Harris
Lis Harris | |
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| Born | February 12, 1940 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Literary Nonfiction Writer, Professor |
| Education | Bennington College (BA) |
| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Spouse | Richard Harris
(m. 1968; div. 1971)Martin Washburn (m. 2001) |
| Website | |
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Lis Harris is an American author and critic[1] and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine which she left in 1995. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The World Policy Journal, Du and the Wilson Quarterly.[2] She is Chair of the Writing Program and a professor of writing at Columbia University
Biography
[edit | edit source]Harris was born in New York City. She attended Bennington College, where she received her B.A. in 1961.
Harris joined the full-time faculty of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2003. There, she leads Nonfiction Dialogues, a series of conversations with distinguished writers. She is Chair of the Writing Program.
Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]Harris was a Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient twice. In 1998, she was awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Gund Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, and the Rockefeller Fund.[2][3]
Publications
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- Holy Days : The World of the Hasidic Family, Touchstone books 1985 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Rules of Engagement – Four Couples and American Marriage, Touchstone books 1996 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ‘’Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze’’, Houghton Mifflin 2003
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Selected articles
[edit | edit source]- 'Di and Li', profile of Diana Trilling, The New Yorker, Sept. 1993
- 'Annals of Intrigue', The Palio, The New Yorker, June 1989
- 'In the Shadow of the Golden Mountain", about Henry Roth, The New Yorker, June 1988
References
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