Roger Rosenblatt





Roger Rosenblatt

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Roger Rosenblatt’s essays for Time magazine and PBS have won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, and an Emmy. He is the author of six Off-Broadway plays and 13 books, including the national bestseller Rules for Aging and Children of War, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written two satirical novels, Beet and Lapham Rising, also a national bestseller. In 2008 he was appointed Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University.


Average rating: 3.62 · 4,140 ratings · 988 reviews · 27 distinct works · Similar authors
Making Toast
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 2,525 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions
Unless It Moves the Human H...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Kayak Morning: Reflections ...
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
Lapham Rising: A Novel
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
Beet
2.98 of 5 stars 2.98 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
Rules for Aging: Resist Nor...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
Anything Can Happen
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
Consuming Desires: Consumpt...
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions
Where We Stand: 30 Reasons ...
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
Children of War
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions
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“A library should be like a pair of open arms.”
Roger Rosenblatt

“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.”
Roger Rosenblatt

“Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible”
Roger Rosenblatt, Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing



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