BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2009 – 2010

Wendy Lesser

For a biography on Dmitri Shostakovich

Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and is the author of eight books, including one novel, The Pagoda in the Garden, and seven works of nonfiction, the most recent of which is Room for Doubt. Besides writing for Threepenny about dance, music, theater, and other cultural subjects, she occasionally reviews books for Bookforum, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She has received fellowships and awards from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, the American Academy in Berlin, the Dedalus Foundation, and many other institutions and organizations. As a Leon Levy fellow she worked on Music for Silenced Voices, a biography of Dmitri Shostakovich focusing on his 15 string quartets, published by Yale in 2011.