A Conspiracy of Paper

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAVID LISS was born in 1966 and grew up in South Florida. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Columbia University, where he is completing a dissertation on the intersection of the mid-eighteenth-century British novel with the contemporaneous emergence of the modern idea of personal finance. He has given numerous conference papers on his research and has also published on Henry James. He has received several awards for his work, including the Columbia University President’s Fellowship, an A.W. Mellon Research Fellowship, and the Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University. He lives in New York City, and can be reached via E-mail at www.davidliss.com.