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Stephen Greenblatt

1943 - Today

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Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Greenblatt is one of the founders of new historicism, a set of critical practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics"; his works have been influential since the early 1980s when he introduced the term. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Greenblatt is the 417th most popular historian (up from 498th in 2019), the 7,368th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,790th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Stephen Greenblatt ranks 417 out of 561. Before him are Francis Godwin, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Boris Rybakov, Riane Eisler, Cyril Toumanoff, and Franz Theodor Kugler. After him are Boris Chicherin, Chimalpahin, Catharine Macaulay, Mary Ritter Beard, Andreas Alföldi, and Henri Grégoire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Stephen Greenblatt ranks 474. Before him are Harley Race, Joël Robert, Silvia Cartwright, Günther Beckstein, Yoram Globus, and Margaret Beckett. After him are Steven Millhauser, Helen Quinn, Robert Durst, Domingo Perurena, Milan Damjanović, and John Miles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Greenblatt ranks 7,370 out of 20,380. Before him are Paul Theroux (1941), Robert Curry (1882), Rick Hoffman (1970), Leslie West (1945), Matt Czuchry (1977), and Damian Priest (1982). After him are Steven Millhauser (1943), Iwao Takamoto (1925), Arthur Crudup (1905), Morris Louis (1912), Chris Jericho (1970), and Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Stephen Greenblatt ranks 25. Before him are Robert Darnton (1939), Donald Keene (1922), Richard N. Frye (1920), Ernest Fenollosa (1853), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Stanley G. Payne (1934). After him are Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Charles A. Beard (1874), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), and Drew Gilpin Faust (1947).

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