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Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Leslie Brody

For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.
Published on June 23, 2021.

Leslie Brody is a creative writing professor, playwright, and biographer. She is the author of Irrepressibleher biography of Jessica Mitford, and Sometimes You Have to Lie, her biography of Louise Fitzhugh, author of Harriet the Spy. In addition to her works of biography, Leslie Brody has written a memoir, Red Star Sister, which received the PEN Center USA West Award, and co-authored a book of essays with Gary Amdahl, entitled A Motel of the Mind. She has held International Writing Fellowships at Hawthornden in Scotland and the Camargo Foundation in France. In the U.S. she’s been an artist-in-residence/fellow at the McDowell ColonyCentrumYaddoRed Cinder ColonyRagdale and the Virginia Center for the ArtsBrody received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Since 1998, she has taught Creative Nonfiction in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Redlands.

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