November 7, 1943 -
American Shakespearean, literary historian, editor, author and professor
Author of "Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare", "The Swerve: How the World Became Modern" (for which he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2011 and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 2012) and "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve"