Suzannah Lessard
Encyclopedia
Suzannah Lessard is an American writer of literary non-fiction. She has written memoir, reportorial pieces, essays and opinion.
, The New School
, George Mason University
, George Washington University
, and Goucher College MFA in Creative Non-fiction. .
She was one of the first editors of the Washington Monthly from 1971 to 1974.
From 1975 to 1995 she was a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine She has also published in New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, and Wilson Quarterly and Harvard Design.
Fellowships
2001-2002 Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
2002-2003 Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship for creative non-fiction, at George Washington University
Life
She has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University
Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...
, The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
, George Mason University
George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
, George Washington University
George Washington University
The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
, and Goucher College MFA in Creative Non-fiction. .
She was one of the first editors of the Washington Monthly from 1971 to 1974.
From 1975 to 1995 she was a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine She has also published in New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, and Wilson Quarterly and Harvard Design.
Awards
- 1995 Whiting Writers' AwardWhiting Writers' AwardThe Whiting Writers' Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. As of 2007, winners receive US $50,000.-External links:**...
- 2003 Mark Lynton History PrizeMark Lynton History PrizeThe Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression"...
Fellowships
2001-2002 Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.
2002-2003 Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship for creative non-fiction, at George Washington University
Works
She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, "The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family" published by Dial Press in 1996. Her next book, "Dreamscape: Finding Our Way in a Time of Epochal Change" is, as of fall 2011, in editorial process. It is a reportorial essay about the experience of going from the Industrial Age to the Information Age with changes in the form and meaning of landscape and place as the point of entry.Reviews
This is a book about -- to put it in the simplest terms possible -- the connections between art, specifically architecture, and life. Is there meaning in architecture that comes inherently from its physical form? Or does meaning come from our own experience? Suzannah Lessard never addresses these questions directly, but they hover over every page of this extraordinary memoir, and searching for an answer to them, as much as telling the story of her family's history, is this book's reason for being.