Linda Leavell

Linda Leavell is an American writer, scholar, and professor. Her biography of Marianne Moore won the PEN Weld Award for Biography and the Plutarch Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Life

Leavell graduated from Baylor University and received her PhD in English from Rice University. She was a professor of American literature at Rhodes College for one year and at Oklahoma State University for 24 years.

Works

• Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color , Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN 9780807119860
• Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. ISBN 9780374710996