Quick Facts

Full Name	Louis Menand
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 21, 1952(1952-01-21)
Age	72
Birthplace	Syracuse
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Louis Menand Biography

Louis Menand is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 21, 1952 in Syracuse, New York, United States. Louis Menand (/’ lu: i.m@ ’ na: n.d/ ; born January 21, 1952), is an American essayist, critic, and professor. He is best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), which portrays the intellectual and cultural history in America’s late 19th and early twentieth centuries.

After graduating from Princeton University, he taught and held positions as a staff writer at The New York Review of Books (1994-2001), and The New Republic (1986-1987). Since 1991, he has been a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He was appointed Distinguished Professor of English in 1988 at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. In 1990, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2003, he accepted a position in Harvard’s English Department. He then left CUNY. He also taught at Queens College and Columbia.

He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. In 2018 he was appointed for a 5-year term to the Lee Simpkins Family professorship of Arts and Sciences. 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 freshmen 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.

In 1987, he published his first book, Discovering Modernism. T. S. Eliot in His Context. The long-awaited second book, The Metaphysical Club, is his much- anticipated work. It includes biographical material about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James and Charles Sanders Peirce and details their contributions to the development of pragmatism. It was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2002 Francis Parkman Prize. Menand published American Studies in 2002, a collection that includes essays about prominent American cultural figures.

Louis Menand Net Worth

Louis Menand is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Louis Menand 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Menand, a Pomona College graduate, attended Harvard Law School for one-year (1973-1974), before he went on to earn his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1980), respectively, in English at Columbia University.

Menand was raised in Boston, Massachusetts, after his birth in Syracuse, New York. Catherine (Shults) Menand was Menand’s mother and a historian. She wrote a biography about Samuel Adams. Louis Menand III was his father and taught political science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Louis Menand House was owned by his great-grandfather and grandfather. It is located in Menands (New York) and listed on 1985’s National Register of Historic Places. Menands is named for his great-grandfather who was a 19th century horticulturalist.

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

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Louis Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Louis Menand celebrates birthday on January 21 of every year.

How do you pronounce Louis Menand?

Louis ‘Luke’ Menand (“Louis” pronounced “ Loo-ee ”, en français; “Menand” pronounced “Men-and”, en American; “Luke” — what Menand’s parents called him, and what stuck) is Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard.

Where does Louis Menand teach?

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

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