David Mikics is a professor of English at the New College of Florida. [1] He was the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston. [2]
His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016. [3] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.