Andrew Levy

Andrew Levy is Edna Cooper Chair in English at Butler University. He is author of The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story, co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion, and co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. His book, The First Emancipator (Random House) was cited as a “Best of 2005” by the Chicago Tribune, Amazon, and Booklist, and received the Slatten Award from the Virginia Historical Society. His most recent book, A Brain Wider Than the Sky (Simon and Schuster) was cited as a best of 2009 by the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, reviewed in Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere, and called a "most remarkable book" by Oliver Sacks. His essays and reviews have appeared in Harper's, the American Scholar, Dissent, Best American Essays, and elsewhere, and he has been a guest on numerous national radio programs and on C-Span. Levy currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Siobhan, and son, Aedan.