Frank Lentricchia (born 1940) is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962. Lentricchia retired from Duke University, where he was a professor in the Program in Literature.

Works

Academic

• The Gaiety of Language : An Essay On The Radical Poetics Of W. B. Yeats And Wallace Stevens (1968)
• Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self (1975)
• Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913 – 1974 (1976) with Melissa Christensen Lentricchia
• After the New Criticism (1980) ISBN 978-0-226-47198-3
• Criticism and Social Change (1983) ISBN 978-0-226-47200-3
• Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens (1989)
• New Essays on White Noise (1991) editor, with Emory Elliot, on White Noise by Don DeLillo
• Introducing Don DeLillo (1991) editor
• Modernist Quartet (1994)
• Critical Terms for Literary Study (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin ISBN 978-0-226-47203-4
• Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 (2003) editor, with Stanley Hauerwas
• Close Reading: The Reader (2003) editor, with Andrew Dubois
• Crimes of Art and Terror (2003) with Jody McAuliffe ISBN 978-0-226-47205-8

Non-Fiction

• The Edge of Night. A Confession (1994)

Fiction

• Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen: Two Novels (1996)
• The Music of the Inferno (1999) novel
• Lucchesi and the Whale (2001)
• The Book of Ruth (2005)
• The Italian Actress (2010)
• The Sadness of Antonioni (2011) ISBN 9781438439129
• The Portable Lentricchia (2012) ISBN 978-1-59954-040-5

Eliot Conte Novels

• The Accidental Pallbearer (2012) ISBN 978-1-61219-171-3
• The Dog Killer of Utica (2014)
• The Morelli Thing (2015)