Daniel Born

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About Daniel Born

Daniel Born, PhD, is co-author of a Chicago crime novel, Unpardonable Sins (2021), written with his friend Dale Suderman (1944-2020) under the pen name David Saul Bergman. Unpardonable Sins has received rave reviews and enjoys a 4.6 rating on the amazon.com website. Born is visiting assistant professor in the core curriculum at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. He has taught literature in the MA Literature program at Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies and served as vice president for post-secondary programs at the Great Books Foundation (2001-2010), where he also edited the Foundation's quarterly magazine, The Common Review. He has previously taught at the University of Kansas, SUNY Maritime College, and Marietta College in Ohio, where he was tenured in 1996. He earned his PhD in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, writing his dissertation under the supervision of Irving Howe. He is currently at work on a sequel to Unpardonable Sins titled Prodigal Sons. He lives in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood. His previous book was The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H. G. Wells (Univ. of North Carolina Press), and he has edited several books, among them The Seven Deadly Sins Sampler and The Great Books Foundation Short Story Omnibus. His articles and essays have appeared in scholarly and mainstream publications including Conradiana, Literature & Theology, the New York Times, forbes.com, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and CMW (Center for Mennonite Writing) Journal. He has won several teaching awards. In 2020 he started an art practice. A selection of his prints and ceramic sculptures can be viewed on his website dankborn.com.