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 ...

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
Autumn 1982

The Man At the Beach

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1997

Criticism and Fiction: Observations By A Jackleg Practitioner

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1991

W.J. Cash After Fifty Years

By Louis D. Rubin
Spring 1981

“You Could Look It Up”

By Louis D. Rubin
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