William Deresiewicz an associate professor of English at Yale University until 2008, is a widely published literary critic.[1] His criticism directed at a popular audience appears in The Nation,[2] The American Scholar,[3][4] the London Review of Books,[5] and The New York Times.[6][7] More often than not controversial, his negative reviews of Terry Eagleton,[8] Zadie Smith,[9] and Richard Powers[10] drew heated reactions within the literary community.[11] He was nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011 and for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2010 and 2011. A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter was published in 2011 by Penguin Press. His academic work Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets was published by Columbia University Press in 2004.