James S. Shapiro

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James S. Shapiro (born September 11, 1955 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and an award-winning non-fiction writer.

Life

Shapiro grew up in Brooklyn, his birthplace. He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1977 , his master's degree a year later, and his doctorate in 1982 from the University of Chicago . After a few years at Darmouth College and Goucher College , he moved to Columbia University in 1985. From 1988–1989 he was a Fulbright lecturer at Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University ; he served in 1998 as a Samuel Wanamaker Fellow at the Globe Theater in London.

Shapiro published on William Shakespeare's works and Elizabethan culture . He co-directed two National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes on Shakespeare, co-edited the Columbia Anthology of British Poetry in 1995 and co- edited the Columbia History of British Poetry in 1994 .

He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities , the Huntington Library, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for his publications and academic activities . He received the Hoffman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship on Marlowe and the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) Award in 1997 . The McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, awarded him the Roland H. Bainton Prize for his book Shakespeare and the Jews . Shapiro wrote for a variety of magazines, including a. for The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review , The Financial Times and for The London Telegraph . In 2006, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the New York City Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers .

Shapiro won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006 and the Theater Book Prize in the same year for his work 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare . In 2011 Shapiro was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . For 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear , he received the 2016 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the "Biography" category.

Works (selection)

  • Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare . Columbia University Press, New York City 1991. ISBN 0-231-07540-5
  • Shakespeare and the Jews . Columbia University Press, New York City 1996. ISBN 0-231-10344-1
  • Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play . Pantheon Books, New York City 2000. ISBN 0-375-40926-2 ; German under the title Are you the King of the Jews? The Passion Play in Oberammergau . dtv, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-421-05369-3
  • 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare . Faber and Faber, London 2005. ISBN 0-571-21480-0
  • Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? London, Faber and Faber 2010. ISBN 1-4165-4162-4

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personal data
SURNAME Shapiro, James S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American English scholar and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City