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Winter 1989 • Vol. XI No. 1 Fiction |

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Nicholas Delbanco is the author of thirty books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent collection of essays, Curiouser and Curiouser, appeared in 2017; this fall he will publish a new novel, titled It Is Enough. He recently retired as the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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