Linda Leavell
American writer, and lecturer at Southern Methodist University
About Linda Leavell
Born 1954. Linda Leavell is an American writer, university teacher and literary scholar.
Linda Leavell is an American writer, scholar, and professor. Her biography of Marianne Moore won the PEN Weld Award for Biography and the Plutarch Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Life Leavell graduated from Baylor University and received her PhD in English from Rice University. She was a professor of American literature at Rhodes College for one year and at Oklahoma State University for 24 years.
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American writer, and lecturer at Southern Methodist University
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Linda Leavell was born in 1954.
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Linda Leavell is a writer, university teacher and literary scholar.
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