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Wendy Griswold
American sociologist
Wendy Griswold (born c. 1946) is an American sociologist, professor of sociology and the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University,[1] prior to that she was the Arthur E. Andersen Research and Teaching Professor, also at Northwestern University.[2] She is a Guggenheim Fellow[3] and well-known for her contributions to the sociology of culture and the sociology of literature. She is the author of nine books, among them, Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria won the "Best Book" award from the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association in 2002[4] and the academic journal Choice named it one of the year's outstanding academic books.[2]