Curtis White
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Curtis White

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Curtis White was born in 1951 in San Lorenzo, California, a post-war suburb of San Francisco. He went to public schools through high school, then to the University of San Francisco. His life and work were deeply influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, by the Vietnam anti-war movement, and by the music scene in San Francisco in the late ‘60s. In 1973 he was accepted into the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University where he was coached in fiction writing by the novelist John Barth. From 1975-1979 he studied literary theory at the University of Iowa with Gayatri Spivak. Barth and Spivak provided the two poles for his work for the remainder of his career, first as a novelist and later as a social critic. Over a fifty-year career he has published seventeen books and hundreds of stories, essays, and reviews. Among his novels are Requiem, Memories of My Father Watching TV, and, most recently, Lacking Character. Notable among his works of social criticism are The Middle Mind, The Science Delusion, and Transcendent. His most recent book, On Resistance, was published in 2026 by Melville House. He has also published in Harper’s Magazine, The Village Voice, Orion, Tricycle, Playboy, Salon, and, bountifully, in Lapham’s Quarterly.
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