Leo Damrosch
Leo Damrosch (born 1941)[1] is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University.[2] He received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. His areas of academic specialty include Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism.[2] Damrosch's The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus is one of the most important recent explorations of the early history of the Society of Friends. His Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) was a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction and winner of the 2006 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award for best work of nonfiction. Among his other books are Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth (1980), God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies in the Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding (1985), Fictions of Reality in the Age of Hume and Johnson (1987), Tocqueville's Discovery of America (2010) and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (2013).
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- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography), winner for Jonathan Swift[3][4][5]
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