Seth Lerer

Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where he also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. His 2008 book, Children’s Literature, won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Truman Capote Award for criticism.

Bicentennial Beginnings

Learning to write and learning to live, with Richard Wilbur as a guide

by Seth Lerer | Thursday, January 04, 2024

Back to School

A return to reading as a private and a public act

by Seth Lerer | Saturday, October 23, 2021