Professional Affiliation

Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University

Expert Bio

Louis Menand is Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His books include The Metaphysical Club, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2002 and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.