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Leopold Damrosch Jr. (born 1941) is an American author and professor. In 2001, he was named the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
. He received a B.A. from
Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
, an M.A. from
Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III of England, Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world' ...
, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a
Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
from
Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
. His areas of academic specialty include
Romanticism Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate ...
, the Enlightenment, and *
Puritan The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become more Protestant. ...
ism. 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 The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The Nat ...
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'' (1989), ''Tocqueville's Discovery of America'' (2010), ''Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World'' (2013), ''Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake'' (2015), '' The Club'' (2019), about the Friday Club including Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, voted one of the 10 best books of 2019 by the New York Times.


Awards and honors

*2013
National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Damrosch, June 20, 2010Official website
* Harvard University faculty Living people Princeton University alumni Yale University alumni Marshall Scholars 1941 births Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{US-English-academic-bio-stub