David Mikics is the Moores Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Honors College, University of Houston.[1]
His book on Stanley Kubrick in the Yale Jewish Lives series was published in 2020. His book about Saul Bellow entitled Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art (W.W. Norton) was published in 2016.[2] Mikics, a Guggenheim Fellow for 2017, is a regular columnist for Tablet magazine. He lives with his wife and trans son in Brooklyn and Houston.