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David Leavitt was born on 23 June, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, is an American writer. Discover David Leavitt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Short story writer novelist essayist professor
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 June 1961
Birthday 23 June
Birthplace Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Nationality United States

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1961

David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer.

Leavitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Gloria and Harold Leavitt.

Harold was a professor who taught at Stanford University and Gloria was a political activist.

1983

Leavitt grew up in Palo Alto, California, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English in 1983.

1990

After his first book's success, he spent much of the 1990s living in Italy working and restoring an old house in Semproniano in Tuscany with his partner.

He has also taught at Princeton University.

While a student at Yale, Leavitt published two stories in The New Yorker, "Territory" and "Out Here", both of which were included in his first collection, Family Dancing (nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award).

Other published fiction includes the short-story collections A Place I've Never Been, Arkansas: Three Novellas and The Marble Quilt and the novels The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, While England Sleeps (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize), The Page Turner, Martin Bauman, The Body of Jonah Boyd and The Indian Clerk (finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award).

1991

Two of Leavitt's novels have been filmed: The Lost Language of Cranes (1991) was directed by Nigel Finch and The Page Turner (released under the title Food of Love) was directed by Ventura Pons.

The rights to a third, The Indian Clerk, have been optioned by Scott Rudin.

1993

In 1993, the English poet Stephen Spender sued Leavitt for copyright infringement over the publication of his novel While England Sleeps, accusing him of using elements of Spender's memoir World Within World in the novel.

Viking-Penguin, Leavitt's publisher at the time, withdrew the book.

1995

In 1995, Houghton Mifflin published a revised version with a preface by Leavitt addressing the controversy.

In "Courage in the Telling: The Critical Rise and Fall of David Leavitt", Drew Patrick Shannon argues that the critical backlash that accompanied Spender's suit "allowed [critics] to reinforce the boundaries between gay and mainstream literature that Leavitt had previously crossed".

Subsequent reviews of Leavitt's work were more favorable.

The episode provided Leavitt with the basis for his novella The Term-Paper Artist.

2000

In 2000, Leavitt moved to Gainesville, Florida, and became a member of the Creative Writing faculty at the University of Florida as well as the founder and editor of the literary journal Subtropics.

Leavitt, who is gay, has frequently explored gay issues in his works.

As a teenager, he was frequently frightened by gay novels that emphasized the ideal male body.

He found this theme, and its suggestion that homoerotic fulfillment was reserved for the exceptionally beautiful young men, intrusive.

His writing explores universal themes such as complex family relationships and class and sex exploitation.

Illness and death are also recurrent themes in his work, inspired by his experience with his mother's cancer and death when he was growing up.

2004

Leavitt's 2004 novel The Body of Jonah Boyd is dedicated to the Palo Alto house he grew up in, 743 Cooksey Lane.

This house has since then gained notoriety for being the site of Sam Bankman-Fried's house arrest.

Despite writing many novels, Leavitt has said he feels more confident as a short story writer.

He has been criticized for writing too quickly, which he attributes to early experiences with death convincing him that his life as a writer would be short.

His work has been considered minimalist as well as part of the literary Brat Pack, but he has made "a fierce effort to disassociate" himself from both.

He considers his works too long, emotional and descriptive to be minimalist.

Leavitt’s favorite novelist is Penelope Fitzgerald, his favorite works of hers being The Beginning of Spring, The Gate of Angels and The Blue Flower.

He has also been influenced by John Cheever, Alice Munro, Cynthia Ozick, Joseph Roth, W. G. Sebald, and Grace Paley, whom he credits for teaching him the importance of humble experiences in great fiction.