James Shapiro
Shakespeare scholar and professor
James Shapiro is a Shakespeare scholar and professor at Columbia University. He has written books on Shakespeare's world, including A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare.
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Born 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, United States
About James Shapiro
James Shapiro was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1955. He specializes in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period, and he has taught at Columbia University since 1985, where he holds the title of Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature. His book A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare took two awards in 2006: the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Theatre Book Prize. He also wrote Shakespeare in a Divided America, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, and Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. In 2011 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has worked as the Public Theater's resident Shakespeare scholar in New York City.