''The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve'' is a non-fiction book by American literary historian

Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general edit ...

, published in 2017. The book delves into the rise and fall of the story of Adam and Eve in

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"The Truth of Fiction of Adam and Eve"
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