Eric Larsen

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Eric Larsen was born in Northfield, Minnesota, where, after going to the public schools, he graduated from Carleton College in 1963. He took an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa and in 1971 completed his Ph.D. there, with Robert Scholes as one of his faculty advisors. For his dissertation, under the direction of William Cotter Murray, he wrote a volume of original stories accompanied by his own critical commentaries.

In 1971, after living abroad for two years, Larsen joined the English Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in the City University of New York, and remained there until his retirement in early 2006. He is married to the editor Anne Larsen. The couple have two grown daughters.

Larsen published stories and essays in quarterlies and magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1988 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill brought out his novel, An American Memory which became the first winner of the Chicago Tribune’s then-new Heartland Prize for the year’s best novel of or about the middle west.

In 1992, Algonquin published I Am Zoë Handke a novel that complemented and advanced several of An American Memory’s elements and themes. Changes in the national mood, in reading habits, in academics, and in popular taste from the early 1990’s on brought about a situation whereby Larsen’s third and fourth novels, following the first two to make a tetralogy of novels, remain unpublished. The third one is entitled The End of the 19th Century, and readers interested in a taste of what it’s like can click here. The fourth is The Decline & Fall of the American Nation.

The subjects of literary and political culture, and of changes in them, have been among Larsen’s strongest interests throughout his career, a fact testified to by his fifth book, a non-fiction work published in May 2006 by Shoemaker & Hoard. It’s entitled A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit.

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	xx xx NOTE: FOR POLITICS, ARGUMENT, & TALK, GO TO "IDEAS" Eric Larsen was born in Northfield, Minnesota, where, after going to the public schools, he graduated from Carleton College in 1963. He took an M.A. in English from the University of Iowa and in 1971 completed his Ph.D. there, with Robert Scholes as one of his faculty advisors. For his dissertation, under the direction of William Cotter Murray, he wrote a volume of original stories accompanied by his own critical commentaries. In 1971, after living abroad for two years, Larsen joined the English Department of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in the City University of New York, and remained there until his retirement in early 2006. He is married to the editor Anne Larsen. The couple have two grown daughters. Larsen published stories and essays in quarterlies and magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1988 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill brought out his novel, An American Memory which became the first winner of the Chicago Tribune’s then-new Heartland Prize for the year’s best novel of or about the middle west. In 1992, Algonquin published I Am Zoë Handke a novel that complemented and advanced several of An American Memory’s elements and themes. Changes in the national mood, in reading habits, in academics, and in popular taste from the early 1990’s on brought about a situation whereby Larsen’s third and fourth novels, following the first two to make a tetralogy of novels, remain unpublished. The third one is entitled The End of the 19th Century, and readers interested in a taste of what it’s like can click here. The fourth is The Decline & Fall of the American Nation. The subjects of literary and political culture, and of changes in them, have been among Larsen’s strongest interests throughout his career, a fact testified to by his fifth book, a non-fiction work published in May 2006 by Shoemaker & Hoard. It’s entitled A Nation Gone Blind: America in an Age of Simplification and Deceit. >>Sign Up For Automatic Alerts When New Material Goes Up on this Web Site: Send an Email With the Word "Signup" on it >> >>See a list of works>> >>Read an interview by the author—of the author>>