LOUIS MENAND, VISITING PROFESSOR AT NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY'S
GRADUATE FACULTY, RECEIVES PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

(New York, NY – April 9, 2002) New School University and its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science announced today that Louis Menand, Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies, is the recipient of the 86th Annual Pulitzer Prize in History (in the category of Letters, Drama and Music) for his book, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The book is a biographical study of American pragmatism.

Louis Menand joined New School University's Graduate Faculty in fall 2001 as Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies. He teaches "The Post-Modern Turn," an interdisciplinary look at the origins in art and thought of developments associated with American postmodernism. Mr. Menand is also a Professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is a contributing editor to The New Yorker, and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, where he has written about politics and popular culture, as well as commenting on the culture wars and reviewing new works of fiction.

Mr. Menand is currently at work on a new book about American culture during the Cold War. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University.