Leonard Cassuto

Author & Professor of English at Fordham University

Cassuto is Professor of English at Fordham University and an award-winning journalist. He has written on topics ranging from science to sports for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more. Cassuto’s other books include The Cambridge History of the American Novel (General Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2011), and The Cambridge Companion to Baseball (Cambridge University Press, 2011), winner of the Best Anthology Award from the North American Society of Sports Historians. His Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Columbia University Press, 2008) was nominated for the Edgar and Macavity Awards and named one of the Ten Best Books of 2008 in the crime and mystery category by The Los Angeles Times.