Her first book reviews were published in The Village Voice while she was in the graduate school at University of Pennsylvania. Scott Fitzgerald, the literature of New York City, Public Intellectuals in America, American Detective Fiction and Contemporary Literature. Her specialist subjects include the work of F. and Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania.Ĭorrigan is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University where she began teaching in 1989. from Fordham University as well as an M.A. Maureen Corrigan was born on July 30, 1955, and raised in Queens, New York, to a working-class family. Corrigan was awarded the 2018 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle for her reviews on Fresh Air on NPR and in The Washington Post, and the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism by the Mystery Writers of America for her book, Mystery & Suspense Writers, with Robin W. In 2005, she published a literary memoir Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. In 2014, she wrote So We Read On, a book on the origins and power of The Great Gatsby. She is the book critic on the NPR radio program Fresh Air and writes for the "Book World" section of The Washington Post. Maureen Corrigan is an American author, scholar, and literary critic. 1999 Edgar Award for Best Critical Work Ģ018 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
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