Maureen Corrigan is a book critic for NPR's “Fresh Air,” a columnist for The Washington Post and the Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism and was awarded the 2018 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. She is the author of “So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures” and “Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading!” Corrigan’s reviews and essays have been published in Salon, The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.