About Robert Grudin

Author Robert Grudin has an impressive track record. Each of his five previous books has been hailed as an important contribution to a separate field (Renaissance studies, philosophy of time, creativity research, academic satire and dialogics).

• Thomas McFarland predicted that Mighty Opposites would become "a standard work" in Shakespearean studies.

• John H. Finley, Jr., writing of Time and the Art of Living, called Grudin "a modern Emerson;" this book will soon see its 20th year in print.

• The Grace of Great Things was nominated for a Pulitzer by Houghton Mifflin, and reviewer Orson Scott Card remarked that he had underlined almost every word of text.

• The novel, Book, got a Pulitzer nomination from Random House and was favorably reviewed nationwide; it made the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of the Year in 1992.

• On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought appeared on the Baker and Taylor national bestseller list for research libraries; it was praised in Philosophy and Literature and the Hudson Review, whose book reviewer, Clara Claiborne Park, remarked, "This man means business."

Grudin is a pathbreaking writer who does not shirk controversy; his work is known for its imagination, its lucidity and its staying power. As a Senior Associate at the Foresight Institute, his work has earned high praise: "Of all the work being done in the academic humanities today, Grudin's writings are the most relevant to real-world efforts to improve the human condition."

Robert Grudin's shorter publications and public appearances number in the hundreds. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the New York Times, the American Scholar, the Wall Steet Journal, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His most recent essay, The Education of the Vulgar has just been published by TheScreamOnline.

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