Suzannah Terry Lessard (born December 1, 1944)[1][2] is an American writer of literary non-fiction.
Fellowships She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family (1996).
Her next book, Dreamscape: Finding Our Way in a Time of Epochal Change was, as of fall 2011, in editorial process.
Her next book, The View From a Small Mountain: Reading the American Landscape was published in 2017.
[8] In 2019, Lessard published The Absent Hand:Reimagining Our American Landscape which Michael Kimmelman described as “thoughtful, exquisitely written collection of interconnected essays…”[9]