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My Take
What gets me about Stephen Greenblatt is how he made literary scholarship feel like detective work. He's a Harvard professor and the man behind The Norton Shakespeare, but the prizes that stack up here, the 2012 Pulitzer and the 2011 National Book Award for The Swerve, tell me he could write for people far outside the academy. Add the Guggenheim, the Fulbright and the 2016 Holberg, and you're looking at someone respected on both sides of the scholar-popularizer divide. Born in Boston in 1943 and Yale-trained, he's the rare academic whose name a general reader might actually recognize. I respect that kind of reach.
Overview
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーヴン・グリーンブラット
- Reading
- すてぃーゔん・ぐりーんぶらっと
- Born
- November 7, 1943 (age 82)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- literary historian / writer / university teacher / literary critic / journalist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Newton North High School
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- 1974 Guggenheim Fellowship
- Rome Prize
- 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
- 2011 National Book Award
- 2016 Holberg International Memorial Prize
- Fulbright Scholarship
- 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction
- 2010 Wilbur Cross Medal
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.