Quote of the day
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Stephen Greenblatt
Born: November 7, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He is John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011)
- Renaissance self-fashioning (1980)
- Marvelous Possessions (1991)
- Hamlet in purgatory (2002)








