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ONE of the familiar voices readers have grown accustomed to hearing on National Public Radio’s with Terry Gross belongs to Maureen Corrigan, who has been the book critic for the show for the past thirty years. But is just one of the outlets through which Corrigan has been sharing sharp, smart literary criticism for decades. She has also been a book review columnist for the since 1990, and her essays and reviews have appeared in the , the , the , the , the , the , and elsewhere. Corrigan is also the author of The Great Gatsby (Little, Brown, 2014) and (Random House, 2005). In 1999 she won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Criticism, and on March 14 she will be awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.

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