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James Shapiro

James Shapiro is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1985. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at Columbia and the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, most recently A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. He has been awarded numerous fellowships and grants from institutions such as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. He has written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Mr. Shapiro lives... Read full bio

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Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Who Wrote Shakespeare? The Case for William Shakespeare of Stratford By: James Shapiro
This edition: eBook, 64 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2011
This ebook is an excerpt from Contested Will by James Shapiro, and originally appeared as the last section titled "Shakespeare." In this chapter, Shapiro succintly and eloquently makes the case for why no one else but...
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Contested Will
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Contested Will Who Wrote Shakespeare? By: James Shapiro
This edition: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback