David Leavitt

David Leavitt (Pittsburgh, 23.6. 1961.-) je američki pisac. Diplomirao je na Yaleu, a danas kao profesor predaje kreativno pisanje na Univerzitetu Floride.

Leavitt je homoseksualac i njegov književni opus se pretežno bavi gay tematikom, uključujući njegov najpoznatiji roman The Lost Language of Cranes.

Leavitta je sudu tužio britanski književnik Stephen Spender zbog toga što je njegov lik na navodno nedoličan način korišten u Leavittovoj knjizi While England Sleeps. Spor je riješen sudskom nagodbom prema kojoj je Leavitt pristao izbaciti sporne dijelove iz knjige.

Bibliografija

Romani

• The Lost Language of Cranes (1986)
• Equal Affections (1989)
• While England Sleeps (1993; revidirano i reizdano 1995)
• The Page Turner (1998)
• Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing (2000)
• The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004)
• The Indian Clerk (2007)

Zbirke

• Family Dancing (1984)
• A Place I've Never Been (1990)
• Arkansas (1997)
• The Marble Quilt (2001)

Publicistika

• Italian Pleasures (1996) (ko-autor Mark Mitchell)
• Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1997) (ko-autor Mark Mitchell)
• In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany (2001) (ko-autor Mark Mitchell)
• Florence, A Delicate Case (2003)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (2005)

Vanjske veze

• David Leavitt's website at the University of Florida
• Šablon:WiredForBooks
• Econoculture Interview, February 2 2006 Arhivirano 2012-02-06 na Wayback Machine-u by Paul Morton
• Recorded keystrokes of Leavitt writing a poem on surprise topic with 15 minute time limit Arhivirano 2016-03-08 na Wayback Machine-u
• Website for Subtropics Magazine