Wendy Lesser

Wendy Lesser is the founder and editor of the Threepenny Review and the author of a number of books, including Why I Read, which garnered rave reviews from coast to coast. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications. To complete You Say to Brick, she was awarded one of the first National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar awards, the only one given to a Californian in 2015.