Andrew Delbanco

• Born: 1952

Andrew Delbanco writes on American culture. A graduate of Harvard University, he began teaching at Columbia University in 1985 and, since 1995, he has been Columbia's Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities. Delbanco's book, The Puritan Ordeal received the 1990 Lionel Trilling Award at Columbia University. He is the author of The Death of Satan, Required Reading, and The Real American Dream. Among the books he has edited are, Writing New England, The Portable Abraham Lincoln, The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (volume 2), and The Puritans in America. He is currently completing a study of the life and work of Herman Melville. Andrew Delbanco's essays appear regularly in the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and other journals, on topics ranging from American literary and religious history to contemporary issues in higher education. In 2001 he was named by Time magazine as "America's Best Social Critic," and in 2003 was chosen New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has served as vice president of PEN American Center and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the ACLS, the NEH, and the National Humanities Center.

Most Famous Works

• The Death of Satan (1995)