title: Robert Grudin
text: # Robert Grudin
  
  Robert Grudin (born 1938) is an American writer and philosopher.
  
  ## Life
  
  Grudin graduated from Harvard, and earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1992–1993. Until 1998 he was a professor of English at the University of Oregon. He has written about many political and philosophical themes including liberty, determinism, creativity, and several others.
  
  ## Career
  
  Grudin is the author of the metafictional novel Book. He has also written Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation (finalist for the 1991 Oregon Book Award), On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, Time and the Art of Living, The Most Amazing Thing, and, most recently, American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness.
  
  