Mark McGurl is an American literary critic specializing in 20th-century American literature.[1] He is the Albert L. Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University.

Mark McGurl
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
GenreAmerican literature
Notable worksThe Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

Background

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McGurl received his B.A. from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University. He has also worked as a journalist for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. In 2011, McGurl received the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing.[2]

Publications

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Books

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Articles and essays

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Citations search: "Mark McGurl" (Google Books)". Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  2. ^ "UCLA English professor wins 2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism", UCLA press release, April 13, 2011.
  3. ^ The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James from Princeton University Press
  4. ^ The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing from Harvard University Press
  5. ^ Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon from Verso Books
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