William Deresiewicz
Author of A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
About the Author
William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008. He is a contributing writer for The Nation and a contributing editor for The New Republic and The American Scholar. His work has also appeared in several publications including The New York Times, The show more Atlantic, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has won the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and the Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. He is the author of several books including A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter and Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by William Deresiewicz
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011) 667 copies
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (2014) 464 copies
The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech (2020) 56 copies
El rebaño excelente: Cómo superar las carencias de la educación universitaria de élite (Educación y Pedagogía)… (2019) 3 copies
Solitude and Leadership 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1964
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA - Education
- Columbia University (PhD)
- Occupations
- professor
book reviewer
Literary critic - Organizations
- Yale University
- Awards and honors
- National Magazine Award. Nominee (2008)
National Magazine Award. Nominee (2009)
National Book Critics Circle. Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Nominee (2010) - Agent
- Elyse Cheney
- Short biography
- William Deresiewicz was an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008 and is a widely published literary critic. His reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Nation, Bookforum, and The American Scholar. He was nominated for National Magazine Award in 2008 and 2009 and the National Book Critics Circle's Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010. [from A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter (2011)]
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P.S. Literary criticism is a wonderful genre and often a great intellectual exercise. But I sometimes wonder whether there are any authors out there who consciously think: "If I use this particular word in this particular way in this particular chapter, then my future readers and critics will know that this is a symbol of..."??? But even if critics sometimes go too far in their digging for hidden meanings, watching them dig is always entertaining ;-)… (more)