Max Rudin
Max Rudin is President & Publisher of Library of America, which he joined 1980 soon after its founding. He writes on American history, literature, music, and popular culture and gives frequent talks on American writing. He has curated exhibitions and programs for the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, and the 92nd Street Y, and created and hosted “Great New York Writers in Great New York Places,” a reading series co-produced with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Since 2020 he has produced and hosted LOA LIVE, an online series on American literature and history that reaches viewers in all fifty states and seventy-two other countries and territories. He has directed several NEH-funded national public humanities initiatives, most recently “Lift Every Voice: Why African American Poetry Matters,” developed in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He served on the Content Leadership Team for the new American Writers Museum in Chicago and as a judge of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing. Rudin holds degrees in English and American literature from Princeton University and Columbia University. He has served on the Board of Directors of The Great Books Foundation, The New York Festival of Song, and Columbia Global Reports, a nonprofit publishing initiative of Columbia University. He serves on the Advisory Council of the American Trust for the British Library and is a member of the Century Association.