Mark McGurl

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

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

Books

Articles and essays

Notes

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