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Louis Menand
American critic, essayist, and professor (born 1952)
Louis Menand (;[1] born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.[2]
Life and career
Menand was born in Syracuse, New York, and raised around Boston, Massachusetts.
His mother, Catherine (Shults) Menand, was a historian who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams.
Louis menand paul de man biography
His father, Louis Menand III, taught political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His grandfather and great-grandfather owned the Louis Menand House, located in Menands, New York, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[3] The village of Menands is named after his great-grandfather, a 19th-century horticulturist.
A 1973 graduate of Pomona College,[4] Menand attended Harvard Law School for one year (1