Nicholas Delbanco Explained

Nicholas Delbanco
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Writer
Spouse:	Elena Greenhouse
Children:	2, including Francesca Delbanco
Relatives:	Andrew Delbanco (brother) Bernard Greenhouse (father-in-law) Nicholas Stoller (son-in-law)

Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer.

Life and career

Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor.^{[1] [2] [3]} He was educated at Harvard University, graduating with a B.A. in 1963; and at Columbia University, with an M.A. in 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–1984, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984–85. He was a visiting professor at such institutions also as Trinity College, Williams College, Columbia University and the University of Iowa. He was director of the MFA Program, and the Hopwood Awards Program at the University of Michigan, until his retirement in 2015.

He has published 30 books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel is The Years (2013), and his most recent work of nonfiction is Curiouser and Curiouser: Essays (2017). In 2015, he published The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin, and the Nature of First Acts. In 2016, he published the Omnibus collection, Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. In 2011, he republished Sherbrookes. This book brings his trilogy of novels (Possession, Sherbrookes, and Stillness from 1977, 1978, and 1980, respectively) between the covers of a single book. Sherbrookes is not simply a reissue of the three original novels together, but a revised edition of the trilogy without being a complete revision of the original story.^[4]

Delbanco has served as chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, and as a judge for, among other contests, the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980,^[5] and twice, a National Endowment for the Arts writing fellowship.

Personal life

Delbanco is the brother of Thomas L. Delbanco, a physician and Harvard professor, and social critic and historian Andrew Delbanco.^{[6] [7]} He is married to Elena Greenhouse, daughter of Beaux Arts Trio cellist Bernard Greenhouse.^[8] They have two daughters, novelist and screenwriter Francesca Delbanco, and TIME editor Andrea Delbanco. In 1962, while Delbanco was a student at Harvard, he was in a creative writing course at Harvard Summer School taught by John Updike, author and Harvard alumnus.^[9] Another student in this class was Jonathan Penner.

In the 1960s, Delbanco might have had a relationship with Carly Simon, which might be alluded to in her song "You're So Vain", but Simon refuses to confirm.^[10] Simon made a comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single, "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)", which sampled "You're So Vain". Simon said about the song, "The apricot scarf" was worn by Delbanco.

Works

Short stories

• The collection, About My Table, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co, 1983
• The collection, The Writer's Trade, and Other Stories, publisher—William Morrow & Co.

Novels

• Book: The Martlet's Tale. Lippincott. 1966 .
• Grasse, 3/23/66. Lippincott. 1968.
• Consider Sappho Burning. Morrow, 1969.
• Book: In the middle distance. registration. Morrow . 1971 .
• Book: Small Rain. registration. William Morrow & Co . 1975 . 9780688028855.
• The Sherbrooke Trilogy (1977–1980)
• Book: In the Name of Mercy. Warner. 1995. 978-0-446-51711-9.
• Book: Delbanco, Nicholas . What Remains. registration. Warner Books. 2000. 978-0-446-67779-0 .
• Book: Old Scores. Warner Books. 2000. 978-0-446-67450-8 .
• Book: The Vagabonds. Warner Books. 2004. 978-0-446-53002-6 .
• Book: Spring and Fall. 2006. Grand Central Publishing. 978-1-58547-905-4. registration.
• Book: Delbanco, Nicholas . The Count of Concord. registration . Dalkey Archive Press. 2008. 978-1-56478-495-7 .
• Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness. Champagne, Ill: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011. (paper) (e-book)

"The Years", Little A books, 2017

Nonfiction

• Book: Group Portrait: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and H. G. Wells. registration. William Morrow & Co. . 1982. 9780688010171.
• Book: Delbanco, Nicholas . The Countess of Stanlein Restored. registration. Verso. 2001. 978-1-85984-761-9 .
• Book: The Lost Suitcase: Reflections on the Literary Life. Columbia University Press . 15 October 2001 . 978-0-231-11543-8 .
• Book: Running in Place . Grove Press. 2001. 978-0-8021-3809-5 .
• Book: The Sincerest Form, Fiction by Imitation. 6 October 2003. McGraw-Hill. 978-0-07-241471-4 .
• Book: Delbanco, Nicholas . Anywhere Out of the World: Essays on Travel, Writing, and Death. registration. Columbia University Press. 2005 . 978-0-231-13384-5 .
• Book: Lastingness: The Art of Old Age. 24 January 2011. Grand Central Publishing. 978-0-446-19964-3.
• Book: The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin and the Nature of First Acts. 19 November 2013. New Harvest. 978-0544114463.

title: "Curiouser and Curiouser" Ohio State University Press, 2017

Editor

• Book: Delbanco, Nicholas . Speaking of writing . registration. University of Michigan Press. 1990. 978-0-472-06422-9 .
• The Sincerest Form, Writing Fiction by Imitation, publisher-McGraw-Hill, 2004
• Craft & Voice, an Introduction to Literature (w. Alan Cheuse), publisher—McGraw-Hill, 2012

External links

• Author's Official Website
• University of Michigan faculty
• New York State Writers Institute
• American Legacy, Nicholas Delbanco, Boston Review, October/November 2004
• Nicholas Delbanco on Writers at Bennington, August 14 2007
• Nicholas Delbanco, Harper's Magazine

Notes and References

1. Book: Nicholas (Franklin) Delbanco Summary.
2. Web site: Delbanco, Nicholas 1942– Encyclopedia.com.
3. News: Paid Notice: Deaths DELBANCO, KURT . The New York Times . 19 November 2007.
4. News: Owchar . Nick . Nicholas Delbanco: The Writer's Craft . Los Angeles Times . 28 August 2011. 27 August 2011.
5. Web site: Nicholas Delbanco – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Gf.org . 27 August 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110628195546/http://www.gf.org/fellows/3508-nicholas-delbanco . 28 June 2011 . dmy-all .
6. Web site: Martinez . Barbara E. . English Professor Brings Literature Outside Class . The Harvard Crimson . 25 June 2020 . 2 June 1998 . Andrew Delbanco says the atmosphere during his undergraduate years was markedly different from that of his brother's, Professor of Medicine Thomas L. Delbanco '61..
7. Web site: Jacobs . Alexandra . The Book on Miss Delbanco: Ask Her Anything . Observer.com . 25 June 2020 . 26 January 2004 . Ms. Delbanco ... is the daughter of literary eminence Nicholas Delbanco, author of a pile of respected books and director of the writing program at the University of Michigan. Her uncle, Andrew Delbanco, is 'a big muckety-muck' at Columbia, a director in the humanities and a literary critic..
8. News: Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller . The New York Times . Irene . Lacher . 9 October 2005.
9. Begley, Adam, Updike, 2014, Harper Collins, p. 226
10. News: Carly Simon Finally Reveals Who "You're So Vain" Is About . Redbook . Megan. Friedman . 18 November 2015.