Roger Rosenblatt

Roger Rosenblatt writes essays, books and plays. His pieces for Time magazine have won two George Polk Awards, awards from the Overseas Press Club, the American Bar Association, and others. His television essays for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS have won the Peabody and the Emmy. He wrote a column for The Washington Post. He is the author of ten books, which have been published in 13 languages. They include the national bestseller, Rules for Aging; three collections of essays; and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written three off-Broadway plays and a comic, one-person show, “Free Speech in America.” Mr. Rosenblatt began writing professionally in his mid-thirties, when he became Literary Editor and a columnist for The New Republic. Before that, he taught at Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D., held the Briggs-Copeland appointment in teaching of writing and was the Allston Burr Senior Tutor and Master of Dunster House. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland in 1965–66. Five universities have awarded him honorary doctorates. In 1995, Long Island University appointed him its first University Professor of Writing. He holds the Parsons Family Chair at Southampton College.