Cynthia L Haven

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard , the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has published two previous books on Czeslaw Milosz: An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz and Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations . She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut fu r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford's...See more

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar and author of 2018's Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard , the first-ever biography of the French theorist. She has published two previous books on Czeslaw Milosz: An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czeslaw Milosz and Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations . She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut fu r die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, as well as a visiting writer and scholar at Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement and has also contributed to the New York Times Book Review , the Nation , the Wall Street Journal , the Virginia Quarterly Review , the Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , and other publications. See less