Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser, the founding and current editor of The Threepenny Review, is the author of twelve nonfiction books and one novel; her latest book, entitled Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery, came out from Farrar Straus & Giroux in May 2020. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, she has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and many other institutions. Her journalistic writing about literature, dance, film, and music has appeared in a number of periodicals in America and abroad.