David Liss David Liss is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Columbia University, where he is completing his dissertation on how the mid-eighteenth-century British novel reflects and shapes the emergence of the modern idea of personalfinance. Liss has received several awards for his work, including the Columbia President's Fellowship, an A. W. Mellon Research Fellowship and the Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He is the author of the Benjamin Weaver series. Read More Read Less