James S. Shapiro
- January 11, 2024
- Literary Historian
Quick Facts
| Full Name | James S. Shapiro |
| Date Of Birth | Sep 11, 1955(1955-09-11) |
| Age | 69 |
| Birthplace | Brooklyn |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | New York |
| Horoscope | Capricorn |
James S. Shapiro Biography
| Birthday | Sep 11 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
James S. Shapiro is one of the most popular and richest Literary Historian who was born on September 11, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. James S. Shapiro (born 1955) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University who specialises in Shakespeare and the Early Modern period. Shapiro has served on the faculty at Columbia University since 1985, teaching Shakespeare and other topics, and he has published widely on Shakespeare and Elizabethan culture.
Shapiro has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Huntington Library, and the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture for his publications and academic activities. He has written for numerous periodicals, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, The Financial Times, and The Daily Telegraph. In 2006, he was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow as well as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
James S. Shapiro Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Literary Historian |
| House | Living in own house. |
James S. Shapiro is one of the richest Literary Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, James S. Shapiro 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Shapiro was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Midwood High School. He obtained his B.A. at Columbia University in 1977, Master’s degree in 1978 and Ph.D. at University of Chicago in 1982. After teaching at Dartmouth College and Goucher College, Shapiro joined the faculty at Columbia University in 1985. He taught as a Fulbright lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University (1988–1989) and served as the Samuel Wanamaker Fellow at the Globe Theatre in London (1998).
Shapiro won the 2006 Samuel Johnson Prize as well as the 2006 Theatre Book Prize for his work 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. He also won the 2011 George Freedley Memorial Award, given by the Theatre Library Association, for his study of the Shakespeare authorship question, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, which has been described as the “definitive treatment” of the Oxfordian theory. The same year Shapiro was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book, “The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606,” was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biographyas well as the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.
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