Books by Michael Denning

Michael Denning was born in Vermont in 1954 and grew up in New York state, the child of school teachers. After studying at Dartmouth, the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, and Yale, he taught at Columbia and Weslyan and now works as Professor of American Studies at Yale University. The author of The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller, he has written on American culture and politics for the Village Voice, Social Text, Radical History Review and History Workshop. Long active in union campaigns, he is a member of the National Writers Union. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut with Hazel Carby and the son Nicholas.