Nicholas Delbanco

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Possession

  • Sherbrookes

    Now finally collected into a single volume, the Sherbrookes trilogy -- Possession, Sherbrookes, and Stillness -- is Nicholas Delbanco's most celebrated achievement. Centering upon one New England clan and their estate in southwestern Vermont -- a ful...

  • The Writer's Trade & Other Stories

    Life is long and art is short in these nine stories about creativity. The writers' problems seem insuperable: his craft isolates and empties him. He exists more as an eye, a voice, or an ear than as a whole, resonant human. Some of Delbanco's writers...

  • In the Name of Mercy

    DR. PETER JULIUS believes a physician should relieve pain, not prolong it. When his cancer-stricken wife begged him to end her misery, he respected her wishes. Afterward, Peter took a post in a hospice and continued his new mission: to help the termi...

  • Old Scores

    At thirty-six, Paul Ballard is a handsome college professor who has captivated, if unwittingly, more then one coed; their attentions means little to him. He is also detached from the turmoil of the 1960’s. In his New England farmhouse he lives a qu...

  • What Remains

    They were privileged people, cultured and German to the core, a family that had been in Germany three hundred years. But that couldn't save them from Hitler. Some met death in concentration camps, some committed suicide, others escaped only to find t...

  • It Is Enough

    A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle in a small town where rumors of war are rumbling. But the film shoot is plagued by accidents. The act...

  • The Vagabonds

    Born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York, the three Saperstone siblings have drifted apart and lead very separate lives. On Cape Cod, Joanna manages a B&B and a teenage daughter, feeling vulnerable and alone. In Ann Arbor, Claire flirts with bec...

  • The Hopwood Awards

    """Permit me to say that I have won Hopwoods and also lost them, and I know the power that winning gives and the way the soul shakes when, all ears, you hear silence instead of your name.""-Arthur MillerThe Hopwood Awards claim a gallery of prizewinn...



  • Spring and Fall

  • The Count of Concord

    Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was--as Nicholas Delbanco writes--"world famous in his lifetime," yet now he has been "almost wholly forgotten." Like Delbanco himself, Sally Ormsby Thompson Robinson--the narrator of this novel and the Count s ficti...

  • The Years

    The Years is about the passage of time: from youth to middle age to the winter of life. Forty years after their intense but doomed college romance, Lawrence and Hermia meet again on a Mediterranean cruise. They fall in love even more deeply, but b...

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Nicholas Delbanco has published 12 books.

Nicholas Delbanco does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Years, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Nicholas Delbanco, Possession, was published in January 1977.

No. Nicholas Delbanco does not write books in series.
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