About Louis Menand
Louis Menand has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1991. He became a staff writer in 2001.
Menand is the author and editor of several books. His book “The Metaphysical Club,” was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. He was an associate editor at The New Republic from 1986 to 1987, and was a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books from 1994 to 2001.
Menand is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Menand lives in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts.