Stephen Greenblatt

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.

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

Occupation

literary historian / writer / university teacher / literary critic / journalist

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

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%88

Tags

• Massachusetts
• literary historian
• writer
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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