Andrew Levy

Andy LevyAndrew Levy

Edna Cooper Chair in English, Full Professor

alevy@butler.edu
317-940-9803

 

Author, Huck Finn’s America (2014),  A Brain Wider Than The Sky (2009), The First Emancipator (2005), The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story (1992), and co-editor of Creating Fiction (1994) and Postmodern American Fiction:  A Norton Anthology (1997).  Essays and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, American Scholar, Missouri Review, Best American Essays, and elsewhere.  Winner of Slatten award for Biography (2005), reviews of work and public appearances include Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, NPR’s All Things Considered and This American Life, Spin, Sports Illustrated, C-Span, Salon, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and other places.  Teaches American literature and culture and creative writing.

Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece, Simon & Schuster

A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary, Simon & Schuster