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About David S. Reynolds

David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian who has written about American literature and culture. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, on the Civil War era—including figures such as Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and John Brown. Reynolds has been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Lincoln Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Book Award, the John Hope Franklin Prize (Honorable Mention), and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is a regular reviewer for The New York Review of Books..

David S. Reynolds writes about United States, History, 19th century, History and criticism, American literature, and Whitman, walt, 1819-1892. Their best-known work is Waking giant.

On FindMyTBR we track 7 books by David S. Reynolds, 7 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (Unabridged), Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville, and John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights (Unabridged). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.