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)

personal data
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