1. Anthony Grafton is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Balzan Prize.
11 Facts About Anthony Grafton
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From 2006 to 2020, Grafton was co-executive editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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Anthony Grafton was born on May 21,1950, in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Anthony Grafton attended the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 and a Master of Arts degree in 1972.
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Anthony Grafton made Phi Beta Kappa in 1970, with honors in history and in the college.
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Anthony Grafton still retains links with the University of London's Warburg Institute.
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Anthony Grafton married Louise Erlich in 1972, and was married to her until her death in 2019.
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Anthony Grafton is noted for his studies of the classical tradition from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, and in the history of historical scholarship.
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Anthony Grafton penned several essay collections, including Defenders of the Text, which deals with the relations between scholarship and science in the early modern period, and, most recently, Worlds Made by Words.
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Anthony Grafton writes on a wide variety of topics for The New Republic, The American Scholar, and The New York Review of Books.
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Anthony Grafton owns a bookwheel which he keeps at hand in his home.