Biography
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. and a professor at the University of Florida. He has also taught at Princeton.
He is the author of Family Dancing, Equal Affections, The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing, The Lost Language of Cranes, While England Sleeps (for the publication of which he was sued by the poet Stephen Spender), The Body of Jonah Boyd, and numerous short stories. His most recent novel is The Indian Clerk. Leavitt, who is openly gay, has frequently explored gay issues in his work.
At the University of Florida, he is a member of the Creative Writing faculty and is also the editor of Subtropics, the University of Florida's literary review. He divides his time between Florida and Tuscany, Italy. Many of his books have been translated into Italian and published there.
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