11 Facts About Louis Menand

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

Louis Menand's mother, Catherine Menand, was a historian who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams.

Louis Menand thereafter taught at Princeton University and held staff positions at The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

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

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

Louis Menand has taught at Columbia, Queens College, the University of Virginia School of Law.

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

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

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

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

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