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Lis Harris
Born(1940-02-12)February 12, 1940
New York City, U.S.
OccupationLiterary Nonfiction Writer, Teacher
EducationBennington College (BA)
GenreNonfiction
Spouse
Richard Harris
(m. 1968; div. 1971)

(m. 1976, divorced)

Martin Washburn
(m. 2001)
Website
lisharris.com

Lis Harris is an American author and critic[1] and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine which she left in 1995. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The World Policy Journal, Du and the Wilson Quarterly.[2] She is now a full-time professor of writing at Columbia University.

Biography

Harris was born in New York City. She attended Bennington College, where she received her B.A. in 1961.

Awards and Honors

Harris was a Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient twice. In 1998, she was awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Gund Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, and the Rockefeller Fund.[2][3]

Teaching

Lis Harris joined the full-time faculty of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2003. There, she leads Nonfiction Dialogues, a series of conversations with distinguished writers. She is the forthcoming Chair of the Writing Program.

Books

  • Holy Days : The World of the Hasidic Family, Touchstone books 1995 ISBN 0-684-81366-1
  • Rules of Engagement – Four Couples and American Marriage, Touchstone books 1996 ISBN 0-684-82527-9
  • In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family, Beacon Press 2019 ISBN 9780807029688

Selected Articles

  • 'Di and Li', profile of Diana Trilling, The New Yorker, Sept. 1993
  • 'Annals of Intrigue', The Palio, The New Yorker, June 1989
  • 'In the Shadow of the Golden Mountain", about Henry Roth, The New Yorker, June 1988

References

  1. ^ The New York Times book review. New York Times Co. September 1995. p. 15.
  2. ^ a b "Lis Harris". The Days of Yore. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  3. ^ "Lis Harris | Columbia University School of the Arts". Columbia. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.