Pulitzer Prize General Non Fiction Winner
The Swerve
by Stephen Greenblatt
Summary
The story of a 15th-century book hunter who discovered a lost poem by Lucretius, sparking the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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Historical Context & Significance
Greenblatt won both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award for this work, which argues that a single poem changed the course of Western thought.