Stanley "Huck" Gutman (born December 24, 1943) is an American academic and political advisor. He is a professor of English at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...

and former chief of staff to presidential candidate

Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September8, 1941) is an American politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Vermont since 2007. He was the U.S. representative for the state's at-large congressional district from 1991 to 2007 ...

. He is the co-author of Sanders's political memoir, '' Outsider in the White House''.

Early life

Stanley Gutman was born on December 24, 1943. He graduated from the University of Vermont. While he was in college, he got the nickname "Huck" from

Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884). He is 12 ...

for walking barefoot around the campus. He received a PhD from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

Career

Gutman is a professor of English at the University of Vermont. He is an expert on "20th-century American, 19th-century U.S. Poetry, Modern Poetry." He is the co-editor of a book about

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how ...

as well as a collection of essays about the global critical reception of American literature. He has also written articles for the ''

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'', two of which he co-authored with

Harry Magdoff Harry Samuel Magdoff (August 21, 1913 – January 1, 2006) was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the M ...

. He has written about

Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai ( he, יהודה עמיחי; born Ludwig Pfeuffer 3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times. Amichai was awarded the 1957 Shlonsky Prize, the ...

, an Israeli poet. Gutman was chief of staff to presidential candidate

in the

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until 2012. He co-authored ''Outsider in the House'', Sanders's political memoir, which was republished as '' Outsider in the White House'' in 2015.

Personal life

Gutman lives with his wife, Bertha and their children in

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