David Plante
An American who lived in London and who now resides in Italy, David Plante's work includes novels such as The Ghost of Henry James, Slides and The Darkness of the Body. He also received critical acclaim for Difficult Women , a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer. The Francoeur Trilogy - The Family , The Country and The Woods - was widely praised. He has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review . A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,...See more
An American who lived in London and who now resides in Italy, David Plante's work includes novels such as The Ghost of Henry James, Slides and The Darkness of the Body. He also received critical acclaim for Difficult Women , a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer. The Francoeur Trilogy - The Family , The Country and The Woods - was widely praised. He has been published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review . A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has received many honours, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. See less
