Suzannah Lessard | |
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| Born | Suzannah Terry Lessard December 1, 1944 Islip, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (1995) |
| Parents | John Ayres Lessard Alida Mary White |
| Relatives | Stanford White (great-grandfather) |
Suzannah Terry Lessard (born December 1, 1944)[1][2] is an American writer of literary nonfiction. She has written a memoir, reportorial pieces, essays, and opinion pieces.
Life
[edit]Lessard was born in Islip, New York to John Ayres Lessard and Alida Mary (White).[1] She is the great-granddaughter of architect Stanford White.[3] She has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, The New School, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College MFA in Creative Non-fiction.[4]
She was one of the first editors of the Washington Monthly from 1971 to 1974.[5] From 1975 to 1995 she was a staff writer at The New Yorker.[6] She has also published in The New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, The Wilson Quarterly and Harvard Design Magazine.
Awards and honors
[edit]- 1995 Whiting Award
- 2003 Mark Lynton History Prize, Mapping the New World: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Sprawl[7]
Fellowships
- 2001-2002 Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
- 2002-2003 Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship for creative non-fiction, at George Washington University
Works
[edit]She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family (1996).
Her next book, The View From a Small Mountain: Reading the American Landscape, was published in 2017.[8]
In 2019, Lessard published The Absent Hand: Reimagining Our American Landscape, which Michael Kimmelman described as "thoughtful, exquisitely written collection of interconnected essays."[9]
Anthologies
[edit]- Elaine Greene, ed. (2006). "The Luxury of Order". If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-1-58816-611-1.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Who, Marquis Who's (December 1996). Who's Who of American Women, 1997-1998. Marquis Who's Who. p. 2455. ISBN 978-0-8379-0422-1.
LESSARD, SUZANNAH TERRY, writer; b. Islip, N.Y., Dec. 1, 1944; d. John Ayres and Alida Mary (White)
- ^ Lessard, Suzannah (23 January 2013). The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family. Random House Publishing Group. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-307-83048-7. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Jaleshgari, Ramin P. (22 September 1996). "Stanford White And His Life Under Scrutiny Of Descendant (Published 1996)". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ newschool.edu
- ^ washingtonmonthly.com
- ^ newyorker.com
- ^ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "Google Books"
- ^ Kimmelman, Michael (2019-04-18). "A Meditation on Our Relationship to the Landscapes We Inhabit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-03.
External links
[edit]- "Suzannah Lessard and Honor Moore", BOMB 57, Betsy Sussler, Fall 1996
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- DOREEN CARVAJAL (October 30, 1996). "AT LUNCH WITH: Suzannah Lessard: Purging the Nightmare Of a Storied Estate". The New York Times.
- Gunnthórunn Gudmundsdóttir (2003). Borderlines: autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-1145-8.
- João de Pina-Cabral; Antónia Pedroso de Lima, eds. (2000). Elites: choice, leadership and succession. Berg Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85973-399-8.
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