Andrew Delbanco

Andrew Delbanco is the author of The Death of Satan: How
Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil, Required Reading:
Why Our American Classics Matter Now, and The Real American
Dream: A Meditation on Hope, all of which were New York
Times Notable Books. The Puritan Ordeal won the Lionel
Trilling Award from Columbia University. He has edited
Writing New England, The Portable Abraham Lincoln, volume
two of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Teresa
Toulouse), and, with Alan Heimert, The Puritans in America.
His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of
Books, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review,
Raritan, and other journals.

In 2001 Delbanco was named a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and in 2003 was named New York State
Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the
Humanities. He is a trustee of the National Humanities
Center and the Library of America and has served as vice
president of PEN American Center. Since 1995 he has been
the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at
Columbia University.