Journalist, novelist, and playwright, Roger Rosenblatt is the author most recently of Making Toast, a memoir, and Unless It Moves the Human Heart, a book on the teaching of writing. Rosenblatt has served as a columnist for the Washington Post, literary editor for New Republic, and the Director of Education for the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work for Time and NewsHour with Jim Lehrer has won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody Award, and an Emmy Award. Rosenblatt is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University. William Safire in the New York Times described Rosenblatt's work as "some of the most profound and stylish writing in America today."

Areas of Expertise

Creative writing

Selected Publications

Unless it Moves the Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing (Harper Collins 2011).

Making Toast: A Family Story (Harper Collins: 2010).

Beet (Ecco: 2008).

Lapham Rising (Ecco/Harper Collins: 2006).

Anything Can Happen (Harcourt: 2003).

Rules for Aging (Harcourt: 2000).

Consuming Desires (editor/introduction, Island Press: 1999).

Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969 (Little Brown: 1997.)

Children of War (Anchor/Doubleday: 1983).

Black Fiction (Harvard UP: 1974)

Courses Taught

Special Topic: Writing the Memoir