Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt

Robert Pinsky recommends Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, a biography by Stephen Greenblatt: "To recommend a best-seller? Strange in a way, but Ploughshares readers should know that Greenblatt is a real writer. Unlike many a 'noted scholar' he writes wonderful sentences and paragraphs. Here is a book about a literary writer that is fun to read. Greenblatt rises above any distinction between narrative and understanding." (Norton)