David Mikics

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David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston. [1]

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. [2] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn and Houston.

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References

  1. "David Mikics". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  2. "David Mikics". University of Houston.