Stephen Greenblatt recently won both the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and eleven other books. He is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard and is generally considered the preeminent Shakespeare scholar in the United States today.

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Portland Arts & Lectures is a subscription-based series, and subscription sales have closed for the 2012-2013 season. However, a limited amount of General Admission tickets will be made available for walk-up purchase on the night of March 5, 2013 when PA&L presents Stephen Greenblatt, and on April 23, 2013, when PA&L presents Nikky Finney. Tickets will be open seating and will have a base value of $29 (not including fees).