Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy (born 1945) is a writer and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His books, which combine historical photographs with his own writing, include Wisconsin Death Trip (1973), Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life (1982), Visible Light (1985), Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (2007), and Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century with Lisa Stoffer (2013).
Lesy grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio and studied at Columbia University, The University of Wisconsin and Rutgers University, where he attained a doctorate in American cultural history.[1] He has taught at Hampshire College since 1990 and is professor of literary journalism. In 2006 he was named a United States Artists Fellow.[2]
Wisconsin Death Trip was adapted into a film by James Marsh in 1999.[3][4]
Lesy is also a professor in the Five Colleges (Massachusetts) community of Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
He was awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography Studies.[5]
Bibliography
| Year | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Wisconsin Death Trip | Pantheon Books |
| 1976 | Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties | Pantheon Books |
| 1980 | Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures | Pantheon Books |
| 1982 | Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life | Pantheon Books |
| 1985 | Visible Light | Crown Publishing Group |
| 1987 | The Forbidden Zone | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| 1991 | Rescues: The Lives of Heroes | Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
| 1997 | Dreamland: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | New Press |
| 2002 | Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943 | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2005 | Angel's World: The New York Photographs of Angelo Rizzuto | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2007 | Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties | W. W. Norton & Company |
| 2013 | Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century (with Lisa Stoffer) | W. W. Norton & Company |
References
- ↑ Birnbaum, Robert (2003) "Interview: Michael Lesy", identitytheory.com, September 16, 2003, retrieved 2011-03-12
- ↑ "PROFESSOR MICHAEL LESY NAMED UNITED STATES ARTISTS FELLOW", Hampshire College, retrieved 2011-03-12
- ↑ Holden, Stephen (1999) "FILM REVIEW; How a Town In Wisconsin Went Mad", New York Times, December 1, 1999, retrieved 2011-03-12
- ↑ Marcus, Greil (1999) "A Record of Despair Born of a Single Image", New York Times, November 28, 1999, retrieved 2011-03-12
- ↑ Guggenheim Foundation (2013) "Michael Lesy", retrieved 2013-09-16