Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
1 appearances
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Edition 54 (2012) Winner
Stephen Jay Greenblatt
スティーブン・ジェイ・グリーンブラット
Sutīben Jei Gurīnburatto
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1943-11-07 （Boston, Massachusetts）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Judaism
- Residence History
- Boston, Massachusetts → Newton, Massachusetts → Cambridge, Massachusetts (Harvard)
Career
- Occupations
- Literary historian, Writer, Professor
- Active Years
- 1964-
- Affiliations
- Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
- Memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Modern Language Association (former president)
- Influenced
- Founder of New Historicism
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale University | — | English | BA | 1960-1964 | United States |
| Yale University | — | English | PhD | 1964-1969 | United States |
| Pembroke College, Cambridge | — | English | BA, MA | 1964-1966 | United Kingdom |
Yale University
English
Degree:
BA
Period:
1960-1964
Year of Graduation:
1964
Country:
United States
Bachelor of Arts
Yale University
English
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1964-1969
Year of Graduation:
1969
Country:
United States
Doctor of Philosophy
Pembroke College, Cambridge
English
Degree:
BA, MA
Period:
1964-1966
Year of Graduation:
1966
Country:
United Kingdom
Fulbright Scholar
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | National Book Award for Nonfiction | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | — | National Book Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern | — | Columbia University | 受賞 |
| 1989 | James Russell Lowell Prize | Shakespearean Negotiations | — | Modern Language Association | 受賞 |
| 2016 | Holberg Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
National Book Award for Nonfiction
2011
Work:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Organization:
National Book Foundation
Result:
受賞
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2012
Work:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
受賞
James Russell Lowell Prize
1989
Work:
Shakespearean Negotiations
Organization:
Modern Language Association
Result:
受賞
Holberg Prize
2016
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
2004 BiographyBiography of Shakespeare contextualized in historical context.
ShakespeareRenaissance
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
2011 NonfictionHow the discovery of Lucretius's manuscript shaped the modern world.
RenaissanceHumanism
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
1980 Literary criticismExplores self-fashioning in the Renaissance.
New HistoricismSelf-fashioning
Bibliography
- Three modern satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965)
- Sir Walter Raleigh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles (1973)
- Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980)
- Shakespearean Negotiations (1988)
- Marvelous Possessions (1990)
- Will in the World (2004)
- The Swerve (2011)
- Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (2018)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- New HistoricismCultural poetics
- Recurring Motifs
- Interplay of literature and historyPower and culture
Legacy
Founder of New Historicism, revolutionary in literary criticism, authority on Shakespeare.
In Popular Culture
- Compared Trump administration to Shakespearean tyrants
Quotes
-
My deep, ongoing interest is in the relation between literature and history...
Source: Interview (2000)
Trivia
- Eastern European Jew
- Ashkenazi Litvak ancestry
- John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard