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Lance Richardson's new book, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, will be published by Pantheon Books in October 2025. For this project, eight years in the making, he was awarded the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship; a Robert and Ina Caro Research Fellowship; a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography; and residencies at the Harry Ransom Center, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Key West Literary Seminar. In 2021–22, he was named a Public Scholar by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2023–24, he was the Janice B. and Milford D. Gerton/Arts and Letters Foundation Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. 

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Lance's first book, House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row, was a New York Times Editors' Choice, spotlighted on "The New Yorker Recommends," and recognized as one of the notable books of 2018 by The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, Esquire, and the American Library Association. It is currently being adapted for television by a major studio.

 

Lance holds a masters degree in literary reportage from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. He teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Bennington College, Vermont. Originally from a small country town in Australia, he now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.