Bruce Holsinger
Biography
Bruce Holsinger
Bruce Holsinger is the author of five novels, including CULPABILITY, THE DISPLACEMENTS and THE GIFTED SCHOOL, as well as many works of nonfiction, most recently ON PARCHMENT: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age.
His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair and many other publications, and he has been profiled on NPR's "Weekend Edition," "Here & Now" and "Marketplace."
A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia and serves as editor of the quarterly journal New Literary History. He also teaches craft classes and serves as board chairman for WriterHouse, a nonprofit in Charlottesville.
Bruce Holsinger
