Born: 21-Jan-1952
Birthplace: Syracuse, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Critic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Metaphysical Club

Father: Louis Menand III (university professor)
Mother: (historian)

    University: BA, Pomona College (1973)
    Law School: Harvard Law School (attended 1973-74)
    University: MA, Columbia University (1975)
    University: PhD, Columbia University (1980)
    Professor: Princeton University
    Professor: Queens College New York
    Professor: Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Professor: University of Virginia Law School
    Professor: English, Harvard University

    Pulitzer Prize for History 2002 for The Metaphysical Club
    The New York Review of Books Contributing Editor
    Harper's Contributing Editor
    The New Yorker Staff Writer

Author of books:
Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context (1987)
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001)
American Studies (2002)

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