Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Russian Literature at Northwestern University, where his course on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky has enrolled over 500 students. He is author or editor of 21 books addressing the great Russian writers, the nature of time, the role of quotations in culture, and the aphorism as a literary/philosophical genre. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has won “best book of the year” awards from the American Comparative Literature Association and the Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.