Leonard Cassuto

Leonard Cassuto is the author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, which was nominated for the Edgar and Macavity Awards and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2008 in the crime and mystery category by the Los Angeles Times. His other books include The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque In American Literature and Culture (Columbia, 1997) and five edited volumes, including two that are newly published in 2011: The Cambridge Companion to Baseball and the Cambridge History of the American Novel (of which he is General Editor). Cassuto is also an award-winning journalist and author of "The Graduate Advisor," a monthly column in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

website: www.lcassuto.com

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