CONTRIBUTOR:

Jonathan Rose

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

Drew University

BIOGRAPHY:

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University, where he directs the graduate program in History and Culture. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and a founding editor of the journal Book History. His book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001; 3rd ed., 2021) won the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, the American Philosophical Society Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the British Council Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies, the SHARP Book History Prize, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Prize. His other publications include The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (1986), The Revised Orwell (1991), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor (2014), and Readers’ Liberation (2018). With Simon Eliot, he edited A Companion to the History of the Book (2nd ed., 2019); and with Mary Hammond, he edited The Edinburgh History of Reading (2020). His work has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Italian, Flemish, Czech, and Lithuanian.