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Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

by Leo Damrosch

National Book · 2013 · Winner
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Yale University PressBiography & MemoirNonfictionISBN 9780300164992

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography2013Winner

About This Book

Leo Damrosch's biography of Jonathan Swift draws on new archival sources to paint a rich portrait of the satirist as both a public polemicist and a deeply private man navigating colonial Ireland and Augustan London. Winner of the NBCC Award for Biography.

About the Author

Leo DamroschAmerican

Leo Damrosch (born 1941) is an American literary scholar and author, serving as the Ernest Bernbaum Professor Emeritus of Literature at Harvard University, with expertise in Romanticism, the Enlightenment, and Puritanism. L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award winner) and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (2013, National Book Critics Circle Award winner), as well as The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age (2019, a New York Times best book).

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