Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where he also directs the prestigious Hopwood Awards Program. For twenty years he taught at Bennington College, where he co-founded (with the late John Gardner) the Bennington Writing Workshops.  He is the author of twenty-five books; his most recent work of non-fiction is Lastingness: The Art of Old Age, and his most recent work of fiction is Sherbrookes, a reconceived version of his Vermont trilogy (Possession, Sherbrookes, and Stillness) which appeared in the late 1970’s.