Louis Menand is widely considered the foremost modern scholar of American studies. He is the author of several works, including The Marketplace of Ideas (2010), American Studies, and most notably The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize. Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Photograph by Justin Ide.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Letters to a Young Writer, a feature, in Fall 2010