Literature for a Changing Planet - Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner is the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a prize-winning and bestselling author whose books include The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate and The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization . He is the general editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature . He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Twitter @martin_puchner