Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser is an acclaimed critic and founder of The Threepenny Review. She is also the author of over a dozen books, including The Amateur, Scandinavian Noir, Why I Read, and You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Her numerous awards and honors include the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing, an NEH Public Scholar Award, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She divides her year between Berkeley and New York, and sometimes adds in Berlin as well.