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Lance Richardson's first book, House of Nutter- The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and named one of the notable titles of 2018 by The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, Esquire and the American Library Association. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including a year-long residency at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, at the New York Public Library. He teaches on the MFA in Writing program at Bennington College, Vermont.
A fascinating biography of a writer whose story aches to be told -- KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering Brooding, sexy, troubled Peter Matthiessen, one of America's last great WASP renegades, has had the immense posthumous luck of finding an ideal biographer in Lance Richardson, who patiently and artfully dissects a difficult life and a body of work that evades easy description. Matthiessen emerges from this book as an unexpected radical, an underappreciated Modernist, and a pioneering environmentalist. I can't imagine that a fairer, better researched, more elegant biography will come out this year -- BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag
