Louis D. Rubin

Biography

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., in his long and distinguished career, has had an immeasurable impact on Southern writing—as novelist, essayist, teacher, and founder of Algonquin Books. His most recent books include the memoirs My Father’s People: A Family of Southern Jews (LSU, 2002) and An Honorable Estate: My Time in the Working Press(LSU, 2001). In 2003 he received the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award.

See Work

CRITICISM / Winter 2005

TR: On Recent Books about Theodore Roosevelt

By Louis D. Rubin

Assuredly our twenty-sixth American president is far from being forgotten. On the contrary, of late there has been positively a resurgence of historical interest in him. Kathleen Dalton’s new biography, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life ...

Autumn 2001

The Continuing Argument Over Jutland

By Louis D. Rubin
Summer 1992

The Passionate Poet and the Use of Criticism

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1979

The Boll Weevil, the Iron Horse, and the End of the Line: Thoughts on the South

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1993

The Left-Handed Glove (A Memory)

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1977

Carson McCullers: the Aesthetic of Pain

By Louis D. Rubin
Winter 1994

Did Churchill Ruin “The Great Work of Time”? Thoughts on the New British Revisionism

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1976

Thomas Wolfe and the Place He Came From

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1995

H. L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sunpapers

By Louis D. Rubin
Winter 1990

From Combray to Ithaca; Or, the “Southernness” of Southern Literature

By Louis D. Rubin