In addition to serving on the advisory panel of The American Heritage Dictionary, she has chaired the Mystery and Suspense judges' panel of the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize. Corrigan is also a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post's Book World. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! was published in 2005. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown in September 2014. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.Ĭorrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. As with the book that inspired it, my only complaint about So We Read On is that it comes to an end. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. 'Second only to the pleasure of re-reading Gatsby is the pleasure of talking to someone about it, and Maureen Corrigan is the ultimate someone: boundlessly erudite, blazingly funny, and infectiously passionate. Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures is written by Maureen Corrigan and published by Little, Brown and Company.
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