Lis Harris is an American author and critic and was for 25 years a staff writer on The New Yorker magazine which she left in 1995. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The World Policy Journal, Du and the Wilson Quarterly. She is Chair of the Writing Program and a professor of writing at Columbia University

Biography

Harris was born in New York City. She attended Bennington College, where she received her B.A. in 1961. Harris joined the full-time faculty of the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2003. There, she leads Nonfiction Dialogues, a series of conversations with distinguished writers. She is Chair of the Writing Program.

Awards and honors

Harris was a Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient twice. In 1998, she was awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Gund Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Foundation, and the Rockefeller Fund.

Publications

Books

ISBN 978-0-395-98417-8

Selected articles