The Poet and the Poem 2018-19 Series

Featured Wendy Lesser

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Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the3333333Ê4444444Threepenny Review3333333Ê4444444and the author of a novel and several previous books of nonfiction, including3333333Ê4444444Why I Read3333333Ê4444444(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). She has written for the3333333Ê4444444New York Times Book Review,3333333Ê4444444London Review of Books,3333333Ê4444444Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.

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