David Leavitt (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
David Leavitt (LEHV-iht) is thought by some critics to be one of the most promising writers of the so-called Yuppie generation of the 1980’s. The son of Harold J. Leavitt, a professor, and Gloria Rosenthal, a housewife, he grew up in Palo Alto, California. He attended Yale University, where he studied creative writing under such editors and writers as John Hollander, Gordon Lish, John Hersey, and Michael Malone. After graduation in 1983 he worked for a year as a reader and an editorial assistant for Viking-Penguin Press in New York, before devoting himself to his writing full-time....
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