David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (winner of the Christian Gauss Award) and Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography (winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). His other books include Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America; George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical, 1822-54 (edited anthology); an edition of Lippard’s novel The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall; The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature (essay collection, edited with Deborah Rosenthal); and ‘Venus in Boston’ and Other Tales of 19th-Century American Life (co-edited with Kimberly Gladman). Reynolds is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and the author of numerous articles on American literature and culture. Currently he is at work on a cultural biography of the antislavery martyr John Brown.
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David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is the author of Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville (winner of the Christian Gauss Award) and Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography (winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). His other books include Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America; George Lippard, Prophet of Protest: Writings of an American Radical, 1822-54 (edited anthology); an edition of Lippard’s novel The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall; The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature (essay collection, edited with Deborah Rosenthal); and ‘Venus in Boston’ and Other Tales of 19th-Century American Life (co-edited with Kimberly Gladman). Reynolds is a regular reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and the author of numerous articles on American literature and culture. Currently he is at work on a cultural biography of the antislavery martyr John Brown.