David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College,

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. His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only write ...

entitled ''Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art'' (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016. Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.

Bibliography

*''Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker,'' Yale University Press, 2020 *''The American Canon'' by Harold Bloom (Editor), Library of America, 2020 *''Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art,''W.W. Norton and Co., 2016 *''Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, ''Harvard/Belknap, 2013 *''The Annotated Emerson''(Editor), Harvard/Belknap, 2012 *''The Art of the Sonnet'', (with

Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt (formerly published as Stephen Burt) is a literary critic and poet who is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. ''The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry cr ...

) Harvard/Belknap, 2011 *''Who Was Jacques Derrida?'' Yale University Press, 2009 *''A New Handbook of Literary Terms,'' Yale University Press, 2007 *''The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche,'' Ohio University Press, 2003

References

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