David Leavitt

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    August 1984
  • Latest Book:
    October 2020
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Family Dancing: Stories

    Thirty years ago, David Leavitt first appeared on the literary scene with a gutsy story collection that stunned readers and reviewers. Just twenty-three, he was hailed as a prodigy of sorts: "remarkably gifted" (The Washington Post), with ...

  • Lost Language of Cranes

    Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip Benjamin, who realizes he must come out to his parents after falling in love for the first time with ...

  • Equal Affections

    "Equal Affections tells the story of the funny, loving, and tragic Cooper family. Louise, the indomitable matriarch, has had cancer for twenty years. Her son Danny, a lawyer, lives in a New Jersey suburb with his lover Walter, who is slowly growing o...

  • A Place I've Never Been

    David Leavitt's second collection of stories further confirms a talent deep and wonderfully creative in its empathy. A Place I've Never Been explores family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships, among characters whose sexual...

  • While England Sleeps

    Set against the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe, While England Sleeps tells the story of a love affair between Brian Botsford, an upper-class young English writer, and Edward Phelan, an idealistic employee of the London Underground and member of the ...

  • The Penguin Book of Gay Short Fiction

    A collection of fiction by and about gay men features original stories from Larry Kramer, Edmund White, Christopher Coe, Michael Cunningham, and other writers and explores the tragedies and triumphs of AIDS. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo....

  • Arkansas

    Three “sly, self-knowing, and hilarious” novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes (The New York Times). Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In “Sa...

  • Pages Passed from Hand to Hand

    Before E. M. Forster's Maurice, written in 1914, introduced a new openness about the favorable depiction of homosexuality in English fiction, a number of novels and stories carried coded portraits of homosexuals and homosexuality. Many of these were,...

  • The Page Turner



  • Martin Bauman: or, A Sure Thing

    David Leavitt’s deliciously sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it. Martin Bauman -- ni...

  • The Marble Quilt

    David Leavitt displays his masterful range, his deep emotional intelligence and wit in these nine stories, a cosmopolitan selection set variously over the past century, from fin de siècle London to early-60s Hollywood, from Florida to Rome. Here is ...

  • Collected Stories

    From the celebrated author of The Lost Language of Cranes and While England Sleeps, an important literary event: the complete collected short fiction.

    This handsome edition gathers together stories from Family Dancing (a finalist for both t...

  • The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories

    The diversity - and unity - of gay love and experience in the twentieth century is celebrated in this acclaimed anthology, which includes twenty-one stories from the original collection, published in 1994, together with fifteen new stories. The texts...

  • The Body of Jonah Boyd

    Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family's house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone's lives in ...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer.To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the id...

  • The Indian Clerk

    On a January morning in 1913, G. H. Hardy--eccentric, charismatic and, at thirty-seven, already considered the greatest British mathematician of his age--receives in the mail a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a ramblin...

  • Future History

    In David Leavitt's chilling science fiction epic, Future History: The Coming Past, three very different lives converge with shocking results. As a deadly creature is unleashed on the world and a mass murderer is at large, three people must somehow co...

  • 21 Great Stories

    The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe To Build a Fire” by Jack London The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry The South” by Jorge Luis Borge...

  • The Two Hotel Francforts

    It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe -- a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe pass...



  • Shelter in Place

    David Leavitt returns with his signature “coolly elegant prose” (O, The Oprah Magazine) to deliver a comedy of manners for the Trump era. It is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, an ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Leavitt has published 20 books.

David Leavitt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Shelter in Place, was published in October 2020.

The first book by David Leavitt, Family Dancing: Stories, was published in August 1984.

No. David Leavitt does not write books in series.
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