Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose —
Anything goes.
Stephen Greenblatt
Born: November 7, 1943 (age 81)
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)