Leo Damrosch

Ernest Birnbaum Professor of English, Harvard University. Author of Samuel Johnson and the Tragic Sense (1972), The Uses of Johnson’s Criticism (1976), Symbol and Truth in Blake’s Myth (1980), God’s Plot’s 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), The Sorrows of Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit (1996), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005), a National Book Award finalist and winner of the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award for the best book of non fiction. Recipient of (among others) a NEH Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.