David Plante

David Plante was born in 1940 and made his name as a novelist with The Ghost of Henry James (1970) and a dozen other novels, including the Francoeur Trilogy (1978-1982), a story of the complex relations within a family and between the family's French Canadian culture and the anglophone New England world around them. He then made his name as a memoirist with Difficult Women (1983; available as an NYRB Classic), about his vexed and deep friendships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer; Becoming a Londoner (2013); and Worlds Apart (2015). He has taught at the University of Tulsa; Columbia University; and the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. A citzen of both the United States and the United Kingdom, he now lives in Lucca, Italy.

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