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Louis Menand (first name pronounced 'lü-E) frequently contributes to The New Yorker (where he is a staff writer), The New York Review of Books, and other literary magazines. A graduate of Pomona College, Menand received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1980 and was Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York before joining the faculty of Harvard University in 2003. His principal field of academic interest is 19th and 20th century American cultural history, and he has written several books, including the following:
- The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2002 Francis Parkman Prize. (ISBN 0374199639 (1st hardcover ed.) and ISBN 0374528497 (1st paperback ed.)
- American Studies, which collects some of his magazine essays.
See also
- Pragmatism
- William James
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
External links
- Harvard University Department of English and American Literature and Language
- Former CUNY biography
- Writings for NYROB
- Menand's humorous exegesis of The Cat in the Hat on NPR's "All Things Considered"
- Menand talks about The Metaphysical Club on "All Things Considered"
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