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Stephen Greenblatt, the author of Will in the World, is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His areas of specialization include Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century English literature, the literature of travel and exploration, and literary theory. Mr. Greenblatt's other books include Hamlet in Purgatory, Learning to Curse: Essays in Modern Culture, and Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley. In addition, he is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the associate general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Mr. Greenblatt also serves on the editorial or advisory boards of numerous journals and is an editor and co-founder of Representations. His research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim, Howard and Kyoto University Foundations, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received the James Russell Lowell Prize of the M.L.A., the British Council Prize in the Humanities, and the Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, and has served as president of the Modern Language Association of America. Mr. Greenblatt has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He has lectured widely and has held numerous visiting professorships.

Bill Goldstein is the founding editor of the Books site of The New York Times on the Web. He writes frequently for the business and arts sections of The Times and for The Times Book Review, and is a regular contributor to Weekend Today on WNBC Channel 4.

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