David Plante, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1940
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Profession: novelist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About David Plante
- David Robert Plante (born March 4, 1940 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist.
- The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.
- He is a graduate of Boston College and the Université catholique de Louvain.
- He has been published extensively including in The New Yorker and The Paris Review and various literary magazines.
- He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- Among his honours are: Henfield Fellow, University of East Anglia, 1975; British Arts Council Grant, 1977; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1983.
- He is an Ambassador for the LGBT Committee of the New York Public Library.
- His voluminous diary is kept in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library.
- His papers are kept in the library of The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- He is a retired professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
- His novels examine the spiritual in a variety of contexts, but notably in the milieu of large, working-class, Catholic families of French Canadian background.
- His male characters range from openly gay to sexually ambiguous and questioning.He has been a writer-in-residence at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Moscow), the Université du Québec à Montréal, Adelphi University, King's College, the University of Cambridge, the University of Tulsa, and the University of East Anglia.
- Plante’s work, for which he has been nominated for the National Book Award, includes Difficult Women (1983), a memoir of his relationships with Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer and the widely praised Francoeur Trilogy--The Family (1978), The Country (1980) and The Woods (1982).
- His most recent book is a memoir of Nikos Stangos, his partner of forty years, The Pure Lover (2009).
- The papers of his former partner, Nikos Stangos (1936-2004), are in The Princeton University Library, the Program in Hellenic Studies.
- Plante lives in London, Lucca Italy, and Athens Greece.
- He has dual citizenship, American and British.
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