Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of many acclaimed, widely translated works in French history that have won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A scholar of global stature, he is a Chevalier in the Légion d’honneur and winner of the National Humanities Medal. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Robert Darnton

Awards

Winner — National Book Critics Circle Award, 1995

Books by Robert Darnton

The Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 2012
Having thoroughly mined the sources, Darnton provides a trove of information on the illegal literature of Old Regime France. The result is an invaluable resource to specialists in French cultural...
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 1991
“Learned and lively essays. . . . Each subject [Darnton] investigates—from the history of reading to Andrzej Wajda’s film ‘Danton’—has its own fascination.” —The New Yorker
Berlin Journal, 1989-1990
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 1993
“Makes us appreciate something of what it felt like for Germans East and West as the world ended.” —Anthony Bailey, New York Times Book Review
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 1996
Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 2010
A master historian's excavations into the past unearth a world that is unexpected and compelling.
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Robert Darnton
Paperback, 2015
"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books
Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Robert Darnton
E Book, 2014
"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
Robert Darnton
Hardback, 2023
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.
The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
Robert Darnton
E Book
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim.