Wendy Lesser is the editor of The Threepenny Review, which she founded in 1980, and the author of eight books, including a novel called The Pagoda in the Garden and seven nonfiction books, among which are Pictures at an Execution, The Amateur, and, most recently, Room for Doubt.
She has received awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy in Berlin, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the Dedalus Foundation, and many other institutions. Her journalistic writing about literature, dance, and music has appeared in a number of periodicals in America and abroad.
Her next book will be about Shostakovich and his 15 string quartets.
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