In 2017, Maureen Corrigan, a book critic for NPR’s “Fresh Air,” was appointed as The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism by the Dean of Georgetown University College. She is an associate editor and contributor of Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.

Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown and Co in September 2014. Her literary memoir Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading! was published in 2005.

Corrigan is a columnist and reviewer for The Washington Post’s Book World. In addition to serving on the advisory panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, she has chaired the Mystery and Suspense judges’ panel of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.