Still Life at Eighty

The Delbanco book I’ve been waiting and wanting to read for half my life. Bravo.” —David Shields

“Delbanco does it again.”—James Carroll

“A triumphant, wise, and elegant memoir.”—Charles Johnson

Author of 30+ books, novelist, critic, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, and director of two premier creative writing programs–Bennington and University of Michigan–Nicholas Delbanco remembers the houses where he lived and welcomed writers like Mary Ruefle, Mary Lee Settle, Mary Robison, John Ashbery, John Cheever, John Irving, John Updike and his lifelong friendships with James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Frederick Busch, Donald Barthelme, and Russell Banks.