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Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve.

Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. A leading scholar of English Renaissance literature, he serves as general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare. He is the author of fourteen books, including Dark Renaissance and the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning The Swerve.

Awards

Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2005

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2004

Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2018

Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2018

Books by Stephen Greenblatt

  • Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

    James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt

    E Book, 2015

    Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.