| Stephen Greenblatt AKA Stephen Jay Greenblatt Born: 7-Nov-1943
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Swerve Wife: Ellen Schmidt (m. 1969, div. 1996, two sons)
Son: Aaron
Son: Joshua
Wife: Ramie Targoff (m. 1998, one son)
Son: Harry
High School: Newton North High School, Newton, MA
University: BA, Yale University (1964)
University: BA, Pembroke College, Cambridge University (1966)
University: MPhil, Yale University (1968)
University: PhD, Yale University (1969)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley
Professor: Harvard University
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Modern Language Association President
Fulbright 1964
Guggenheim Fellowship 1975
Guggenheim Fellowship 1983
National Book Award for Nonfiction 2011 for The Swerve
Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction 2012 for The Swerve
Author of books:
Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965, criticism)
Sir Walter Ralegh: The Renaissance Man and His Roles (1973, biography)
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980, criticism)
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (1988, criticism)
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990, essays)
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (1991, history)
Practicing New Historicism (2000, criticism)
Hamlet in Purgatory (2001, criticism)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004, criticism)
The Greenblatt Reader (2004, collection)
Shakespeare's Freedom (2010, criticism)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011, intellectual history)
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