Gerald Sorin

Gerald Sorin is a Distinguished Professor of American and Jewish Studies at SUNY New Paltz whose writings suggest that although we currently lack the moral and political will to take care of one another in the fullest sense, social progress proceeds in an ebb and flow of advancement and regression. He won the National Jewish Book Award for History in 2003 with his book Irving Howe: A Life of Passionate Dissent, and again in 2012 for Biography with his latest book, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane. The Fast book also won a Silver Medal for Biography from IPPY, the Independent Publishers Association.