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.
Works Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color, Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
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