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Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Louis Menand to Speak April 19 March 23, 2007 -- Louis Menand, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, will deliver the 2007 Jesse Mack Lecture in the Humanities at Oberlin College on April 19. His lecture, entitled "Art and Ideas in the Cold War," will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Craig Lecture Hall in the Oberlin College Science Center. The event is free and open to the public. Louis Menand is among the foremost American intellectual historians working today. His book The Metaphysical Club (2001) won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, and the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction from the Chicago Tribune. The Metaphysical Club was named one of the nine best books of 2001 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review. Menand is also the author of American Studies (2002) and Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context (1987) and is the editor or co-editor of books on American thought, literary criticism, and higher education. He was associate editor of The New Republic from 1986-1987 and contributing editor of The New York Review of Books from 1994–2001. He has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1991; since 2001, he has been a staff writer there, and has been a National Magazine Award Finalist four times. - ### - Media Contact: Scott Wargo < back to current press releases
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