David Leavitt is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including The Lost Language of Cranes, the story of a decade in which he traveled in Europe in search of cranes. He is also the author of two novels, The Ripper and The English Teacher, and a memoir, I Love You More Than You Know. His first novel, A Complicated Kindness was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His second novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the ten best books of 2009
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His third novel, Amy & Isabelle premiered as a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics. In 2011 his first non-fiction book, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel for Children was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Leavitt's essay collection I Love You More Than You Know: Essays on Life and Love was published in April 2011 by Harper Collins.