Louis Menand
Louis "Luke" Menand (born January 21, 1952 in Syracuse , New York ) is an American English scholar , literary critic and cultural historian and Pulitzer Prize winner .
Menand received in 1973 from Pomona College a Bachelor in creative writing ( creative writing ) and from Columbia University in 1975 a master and in 1980 a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature . In 1990 he received a Guggenheim grant .
He has been a writer for The New York Review of Books since 1994 and for The New Yorker since 2001 . He mainly writes book reviews. He is a professor of English at Harvard University , where he lectures on humanities , particularly literary history . He previously held other professorships at City University of New York , Princeton University , Columbia University and the University of Virginia .
For The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America , Menand received the Society of American Historians' Francis Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2002 .
In 2011 Menand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2015 he received the National Humanities Medal .
Fonts (selection)
- The Marketplace of Ideas (2010)
- American Studies (2002)
- The Metaphysical Club (2001)
- The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7: Modernism and the New Criticism , ed. (2000)
- The Future of Academic Freedom , Ed. (1997)
- Pragmatism: A Reader , ed. (1996)
- Discovering Modernism: TS Eliot and His Context (1987)
Web links
- Louis Menand: Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard University (harvard.edu)
- Louis Menand in the nndb (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Louis Menand. In: gf.org. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 2002 Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - Society of American Historians. In: sah.columbia.edu. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
- ^ The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar). In: pulitzer.org. April 1, 2010, accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Louis Menand. In: neh.gov. Retrieved December 2, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Menand, Louis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Menand, Luke |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American English scholar, literary critic, and cultural historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Syracuse , New York |