Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is a prominent American writer and academic, best known for his 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, U.S., and raised around Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His mother was a historian, who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams. Menand's father, Louis Menand III, taught political science at t...
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Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is a prominent American writer and academic, best known for his 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, U.S., and raised around Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His mother was a historian, who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams. Menand's father, Louis Menand III, taught political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A graduate of Pomona College, Menand attended Harvard Law School for one year (1973-1974) before he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1980.
Menand thereafter taught at Princeton University and held staff positions at The New Republic and The New Yorker. He served as Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York before accepting a post at Harvard in 2003.
Menand published his first book, Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context, in...
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