Pulitzer Prize for History
1 appearances
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Edition 84 (2002) Winner
Louis Menand
ルイス・メナンド
Ruisu Menando
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1952-01-21 （Syracuse, New York）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Syracuse, New York → Around Boston, Massachusetts
Career
- Occupations
- Critic, essayist, professor
- Active Years
- 1973-2024
- Affiliations
- Harvard University, The New Yorker, Princeton University, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
- Memberships
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Influenced
- William James, John Dewey
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pomona College | — | English | BA | — | United States |
| Harvard Law School | — | Law | — | 1973-1974 | United States |
| Columbia University | — | English | MA, PhD | 1974-1980 | United States |
Pomona College
English
Degree:
BA
Year of Graduation:
1973
Country:
United States
Harvard Law School
Law
Period:
1973-1974
Country:
United States
Attended for one year
Columbia University
English
Degree:
MA, PhD
Period:
1974-1980
Year of Graduation:
1980
Country:
United States
MA 1975, PhD 1980
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Pulitzer Prize for History | The Metaphysical Club | — | Columbia University | 受賞 |
| 2015 | National Humanities Medal | — | — | National Endowment for the Humanities | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Francis Parkman Prize | The Metaphysical Club | — | Society of American Historians | 受賞 |
Pulitzer Prize for History
2002
Work:
The Metaphysical Club
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
受賞
National Humanities Medal
2015
Organization:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Result:
受賞
Francis Parkman Prize
2002
Work:
The Metaphysical Club
Organization:
Society of American Historians
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
2001 Intellectual and cultural historyAn intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
PragmatismAmerican intellectual history
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
2021 Cultural historyA monumental study of Cold War culture from 1945 to 1965, covering art, literature, music, and thought.
Cold War cultureArt and thought
Bibliography
- Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context
- The Future of Academic Freedom
- Pragmatism: A Reader
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
- American Studies
- The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
- The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Clear and engaging proseIntellectually rigorous yet accessible
- Recurring Motifs
- American cultural historyPragmatism20th-century thought
Legacy
Renowned American critic, essayist, and historian. Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard professor specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American cultural history.
Trivia
- His mother, Catherine (Shults) Menand, was a historian who wrote a biography of Samuel Adams.
- His father, Louis Menand III, taught political science at MIT.
- His great-grandfather was a 19th-century horticulturist after whom the village of Menands, New York, is named.