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Louis Menand was born on 21 January, 1952 in Syracuse, New York, U.S., is an American critic, essayist, and professor (born 1952). Discover Louis Menand's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Critic · essayist · professor
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 21 January, 1952
Birthday 21 January
Birthplace Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1952

Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.

Menand was born in Syracuse, New York, and raised around Boston, Massachusetts.

His mother, Catherine (Shults) Menand, was a historian who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams.

His father, Louis Menand III, taught political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1973

A 1973 graduate of Pomona College, Menand attended Harvard Law School for one year (1973–1974) before he left to earn Master of Arts (1975) and PhD (1980) degrees in English from Columbia University.

1985

His grandfather and great-grandfather owned the Louis Menand House, located in Menands, New York, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

1987

He published his first book, Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context, in 1987.

1988

In 1988 he was appointed a Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in 1990 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

1991

He has contributed to The New Yorker since 1991 and remains a staff writer.

1994

He thereafter taught at Princeton University and held staff positions at The New York Review of Books (contributing editor 1994–2001) and The New Republic (associate editor 1986–1987).

2001

His second book, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001), includes detailed biographical material on Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey, and documents their roles in the development of the philosophy of pragmatism.

2002

It received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2002 Francis Parkman Prize, and The Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction.

In 2002 Menand published American Studies, a collection of essays on prominent figures in American culture.

He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard.

2003

He left CUNY to accept a post in the English Department at Harvard University in 2003.

He has also taught at Columbia, Queens College, the University of Virginia School of Law.

2015

In consultation with the National Endowment for the Humanities, President Barack Obama awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2015.

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2018

In 2018 he was appointed for a 5-year term to the Lee Simpkins Family professorship of Arts and Sciences.

2019

The village of Menands is named after his great-grandfather, a 19th-century horticulturist.

His principal field of academic interest is 19th and 20th century American cultural history.

He teaches literary theory and postwar cultural history at both the graduate and undergraduate level.

At Harvard he helped co-found a freshman course with content in literature and philosophy, Humanities 10: An Introductory Humanities Colloquium.

He also served as co-chair on the Task Force on General Education at Harvard working on a new general education curriculum.