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Benjamin Nugent

Benjamin Nugent's nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, and n+1, and his fiction has appeared in Tin House. His first novel, Good Kids, will be published by Scribner in 2013. American Nerd: The Story of My People, published by Scribner in 2008, is a combination of journalism and memoir. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts fellow. Director of Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, he teaches fiction and nonfiction in its MFA and undergraduate programs. He grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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American Nerd
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American Nerd The Story of My People By: Benjamin Nugent
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: June 2, 2009
Now in paperback, "one of the season's most talked about cultural studies" (Los Angeles Times)—an incisive and irrever- ent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psy- chology, and memoir from noted...
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