BOMBLive!
Suzannah Lessard by Patrick McGrath
The New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York City
Fall, 2002
The BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series

Suzannah Lessard is a prominent and highly respected writer, editor, and commentator. She worked as a writer and editor for the Washington Monthly early in her career, and went on to become a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she worked for 20 years. Her work at The New Yorker earned her the magazine’s prestigious Whiting Writer’s Award in 1995. Since then Lessard has published The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family, about the scandalous murder of her great-grandfather, the architect Stanford White, and her work teaching writing and master classes has brought her, at various times, to Wesleyan University, The New School, Columbia School of the Arts, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Digest, and Wilson Quarterly.

Patrick McGrath is a British writer who has published seven critically-acclaimed novels, a short story collection, and a travel book about New York City. His work has been categorized as gothic fiction, an assessment his bibliography corroborates, from The Grotesque and Asylum to Dr. Haggard’s Disease. McGrath is an undisputed master of the psychological thriller, and his most recent novel, Trauma, was published in July, 2008.