Lis Harris

Lis Harris is an American author and critic[1] and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine which she left in 1995. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The World Policy Journal, Du and the Wilson Quarterly.[2] She is now a full-time professor of writing at Columbia University.

Education

Harris obtained her B.A. from Bennington College.

Awards and honors

Harris was a Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient twice. In 1998, she was awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Gund Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, and the Rockefeller Fund.[2][3]

Major publications

  • Holy Days : The World of the Hasidic Family, Touchstone books 1995 ISBN 0-684-81366-1
  • Rules of Engagement – Four Couples and American Marriage, Touchstone books 1996 ISBN 0-684-82527-9

References

  1. ↑ The New York Times book review. New York Times Co. September 1995. p. 15.
  2. 1 2 "Lis Harris". The Days of Yore. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Lis Harris | Columbia University School of the Arts". Columbia. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved July 20, 2013.



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