Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is
the author of twelve books including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern which won the
National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the
World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance
Self-Fashioning. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The
Norton Shakespeare and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.