Leon levy center biography cuny
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The Leon Levy Center for Biography offers four resident fellowships at the Graduate Center for the academic year beginning each September.
Fellows devote their time to their projects and participate in monthly seminars. Furthermore, the public events of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, including the annual lecture and conference must be attended. Also, they are encouraged to join in the dynamic intellectual community of the Graduate Center.
Application Deadline
January 4,
Eligibility for The Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship
- Writers who have not yet published a biography or received fellowships for the writing of a biography
- Also, publisge and accomplished writers who are undertaking their first biography are encouraged to submit
- Applications are particularly welcome from CUNY faculty. More so, fellows may not teach or partake in other full-time employment during their academic year-in-residence. The Leon Levy Center for Biography does not award fellowsh
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The Leon Levy fellowship was a terrific experience for me, especially since I work out of my own home ordinarily and don&#;t get much feedback. I particularly liked the informal discussions of biography and biographers and I think it may be the only place where you &#;workshop&#; a piece of your biography, the kind of supportive and detailed interaction that, as far as I know, is usually only given to fiction writers.
—D.T. Max, – fellow, author of Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (Viking, ).
As a first-time biographer, I derived enormous benefit from the Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship, not only because it provided a workplace and financial support (two very important factors), but because it put me in regular contact with other biographers, some of whom had significantly more experience working in the genre.
—Susan Bernofsky, – fellow, writing a biography of Robert Walser, the Swiss modernist author.
The Leon Levy Center for Biogr
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Established with a generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation in as a hub for writers, scholars, students, teachers, and readers of biography, the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center builds connections between independent and university-affiliated biographers across disciplines and cultivates important discussions about the art and craft of biography historically and in our time.
&#;Without the Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, I could never have written my just-published book, Balanchine & The Lost Muse.&#;
—Elizabeth Kendall, – fellow, author of Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer (Oxford, )
To achieve its mandate of identifying, supporting, and fostering excellence and innovation in biography, the Leon Levy Center for Biography (LLCB) hosts frequent public events as well as the annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture in the fall; an annual conference