James Shapiro

American · b. 1955

2 award wins·1 shortlist appearance

Award History

Award	Year	Book	Status
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2020	Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future	Shortlist
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography	2015	1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear	Winner
Baillie Gifford Prize	2006	1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare	Winner

Award-Winning Books

Winner
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
James ShapiroJames Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography
Shortlist
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
James ShapiroNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Winner
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James ShapiroBaillie Gifford Prize

About James Shapiro

James S. Shapiro is an American Shakespeare scholar and author. His book 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare won the Samuel Johnson Prize (now the Baillie Gifford Prize) for Non-Fiction in 2006.

Award History

Award-Winning Books

1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

About James Shapiro