Mark McGurl

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name	Mark McGurl
occupation	Professor
nationality	American
genre	American literature
notableworks	The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
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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.

Publications

Books

• The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James (Princeton University Press, 2001)
• The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard University Press, 2009)
• Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Verso Books, 2021)

Articles and essays

• "Ordinary Doom: Literary Studies in the Waste Land of the Present,"New Literary History," Fall 2010
• "A Response to Elif Batuman's Review of The Program Era in the London Review of Books" Official Website: The Program Era Reviews, October 1/October 10, 2010
• "The Zombie Renaissance," n+1 no.9 spring 2010
• "Understanding Iowa: Flannery O'Connor B.A., M.F.A." American Literary History, Summer 2007
• "Learning from Little Tree: The Political Education of the Counterculture" Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 2005
• "The Program Era: Pluralisms of Postwar American Fiction" Critical Inquiry, Fall 2005
• "Social Geometries: Taking Place in Henry James" Representations 68, Autumn 1999, 59-83
• "Making 'Literature' of It:Hammett and High Culture" American Literary History, 9.4, Winter 1997, 702-717
• "Making It Big: Picturing the Radio Age in King Kong" Critical Inquiry, Spring 1996

Notes

References

1. [http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-english-professor-wins-2011-200344.aspx "UCLA English professor wins 2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism"], [[UCLA]] press release, April 13, 2011.
2. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7197.html ''The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James''] from [[Princeton University Press]]
3. [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674062092''The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing''] from [[Harvard University Press]]
4. [https://www.versobooks.com/books/3861-everything-and-less ''Everything & Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon''] from [[Verso Books]]

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