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Nicholas Delbanco is Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. He has served as Chair of the Fiction Panel for the National Book Awards, and received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowships. He is the author of The Martlet's Tale, The Vagabonds, as well as Sherbrookes: Possession / Sherbrookes / Stillness.
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