Louis Menand

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Louis Menand (21 January 1952 - )

Menand's mother was a historian who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams, and his father was Louis Menand III, a political science professor at the [* Massachusetts Institute of Technology].

Menand, who was raised in the Boston area, was born in Syracuse, New York, graduated from Pomona College (1973), attended Harvard Law School (1973 - 1974), and at Columbia University received his M.A. (1975) and Ph. D. (1980).

A distinguished critic whose The Metaphysical Club received the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2002, Menand is a contributing editor for The New York Review of Books and Harper's as well as a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Menand lives in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected Works

• The Marketplace of Ideas, 2010, New York: W. W. Norton
• American Studies, 2002, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
• The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, 2001, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
• Pragmatism: A Reader, (editor), 1997, New York: Vintage
• The Future of Academic Freedom, (editor), 1996, Chicago: U of Chicago Press
• Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and his Context, 1987, New York: Oxford University Press