| After
being the youngest House Master in the history of Harvard, Roger
Rosenblatt served a term as director of education at the National
Endowment for the Humanities. He then became literary editor
of The New Republic
and a columnist and essayist for The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and the PBS News
Hour. He has
been an editor at U.S. News and World Report, Life Magazine, and other major national
publications, and editor-at-large at Time Incorporated. Professor Rosenblatt has published over 300 essays and articles, as well as eleven books. He also has two new plays in rehearsal. Rosenblatt’s list of awards and honors includes a Fulbright Scholarship, Washingtonian Magazine’s award for the best Columnist in Washington, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, five honorary doctorates, and an emmy. In 2005 he was the Edward R. Murrow visiting professor at Harvard. He also has taught at the Columbia School of Journalism and Georgetown. |
Roger Rosenblatt
Distinguished Professor. Harvard University PhD 1968
Courses:
Fall 2008
- 20th-Century American Literature (EGL 570)
Selected Publications
- Beet (Ecco 2008)
- Lapham Rising (Ecco/Harper Collins: 2006)
- Anything Can Happen (Harcourt: 2003)
- Rules for Aging (Harcourt: 2000)
- Consuming Desires (ed./introduction; Island Press: 1999)
- Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969 (Little, Brown: 1997)
- Children of War (Anchor/Doubleday 1983)
- Black Fiction (Harvard UP: 1974
Honors and Awards
- Fulbright Scholarship
- George Polk Award (twice)
- George Foster Peabody Award (twice)
- The Emmy
- Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize (for Children of War)
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