Wendy Lesser Author

Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of one novel and nine previous books of nonfiction, including Why I Read, which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the TLS, and other publications. To complete this biography, she was awarded one of the first NEH Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.