Elena Delbanco has recently retired after teaching for 27 years at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Before moving to Ann Arbor, she worked at Bennington College in Vermont, where she and her husband, the writer Nicholas Delbanco, together with the late John Gardner, founded the Bennington Writing Workshops. Delbanco has long been engaged in the world of classical music. Her father was the renowned cellist Bernard Greenhouse (of the Beaux Arts Trio), who owned the Countess of Stainlein ex-Paganini Stradivarius violoncello of 1707. The imagined fate of that instrument, upon her father’s death, inspired THE SILVER SWAN, her first novel.

Books by Elena Delbanco

The Silver Swan

by Elena Delbanco - Fiction

Rich in detail and so cleanly wrought, Elena Delbanco’s debut novel, THE SILVER SWAN, is a delicious read that dives into the romances and idiosyncrasies of the world’s top musicians --- it is bound to inspire excitement and plenty of discussion for any book club.