A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
by James Shapiro | 
Shakespeare
by Peter Ackroyd | 
Marvelous Possessions
by Stephen Greenblatt | 
Contested Will
by James Shapiro | 
Soul of the Age
by Jonathan Bate | 
The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough | 
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gwynne | 
The Professor and the Madman
by Simon Winchester | 
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers | 
Mobituaries
by Mo Rocca | 
Gandhi
by Mahatma Gandhi | 
The Greatest Game Ever Played
by Mark Frost | 
There Are No Children Here
by Alex Kotlowitz | 
The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir | 
The Meaning of Everything
by Simon Winchester | 
Crazy Horse and Custer
by Stephen E. Ambrose | 
Caesar
by Adrian Goldsworthy | 
Walt Disney
by B. G. Thomas | 
Working
by Studs Terkel | 
Paul Revere's Ride
by David Hackett Fischer |
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world's greatest playwright. A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist.