Glenn C. Loury

Glenn C. Loury is an American economist, academic and public intellectual who is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University. He was the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard University and has been a prominent voice in debates about race, inequality and public policy in America for over four decades. Late Admissions is his memoir, tracing his journey from the South Side of Chicago through academic achievement, personal crisis and intellectual transformation. Loury writes with unflinching honesty about his struggles with addiction, his relationships and his evolving views on race and society, creating a memoir that is both deeply personal and intellectually significant. He has published extensively on racial inequality, affirmative action and social mobility. His audiobooks and books offer readers a candid and intellectually rigorous account of a life spent wrestling with America's most challenging social questions.