Lis Harris is an American author and critic and was for 25 years a staff writer on

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magazine which she left in 1995. Her work has appeared in

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, The World Policy Journal, Du and the

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. She is Chair of the Writing Program and a professor of writing at

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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

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, 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

* ''Holy Days : The World of the Hasidic Family'', Touchstone books 1985 * ''Rules of Engagement – Four Couples and American Marriage'', Touchstone books 1996 * ‘’Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings, and the Corporate Squeeze’’, Houghton Mifflin 2003 * ''In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family'', Beacon Press 2019

Selected articles

* 'Di and Li', profile of Diana Trilling, ''The New Yorker'', Sept. 1993 * 'Annals of Intrigue', The Palio, ''The New Yorker'', June 1989 * 'In the Shadow of the Golden Mountain", about Henry Roth, ''The New Yorker'', June 1988

References

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