- Born: 1938
Robert Grudin's books entertain thoughts on the philosophy of human liberty. His philosophical trilogy, Time and the Art of Living, The Grace of Great Things, and On Dialogue, examines questions of liberty and determinism in a variety of fields, with particular emphasis on psychology, politics, communications and creative endeavor. His fictional Book: A Novel was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, and was that year's
Grudin's essays and reviews have appeared in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the New York Times, the American Scholar, the Wall Steet Journal, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. A graduate of Harvard College, Grudin received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1992-93 and, until 1998, was a professor of English at the University of Oregon.
He wrote a second novel, The Most Amazing Thing, in 2002.
Most Famous Works
- Book: A Novel (1992)
- Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety (1979)
- Time and the Art of Living (1982)
- The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation (1990)
- On Dialogue (1996)
- The Most Amazing Thing (2002)
