Christoph Irmscher

Christoph Irmscher is a writer and biographer based in Bloomington, Indiana. He teaches at Indiana University, where he also runs the Wells Scholars Program. His biographies of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Louis Agassiz, and Max Eastman have been widely reviewed, winning praise from the New York Times, where "Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science" was Editor's Choice, the Seattle Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Vineyard Gazette, and the Wall Street Journal. He particularly enjoys archival work. He was the first biographer of the charismatic radical Max Eastman to be given unlimited access to Eastman's voluminous papers, and he will never forget the day when he found Eastman's little notebook recording his visit with Sigmund Freud in 1927. Christoph has written reviews for the American Scholar, the Los Angeles Times, and the the Wall Street Journal. Subscribe to Christoph's newsletter--with periodic short essays related to his work--at http://www.christophirmscher.com/newsletter.htm.