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Author of The Great Cat Massacre plus several other texts, Robert Darnton is a cultural historian, professor, and librarian originally from New York City. Darnton studied at Harvard University and was later awarded a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned a PhD in history. His doctoral thesis explored trends in propaganda prior to the French Revolution. His career has largely focused on 18th-century French society, though he helped pioneer the study of the history of books and is a noted advocate of electronic publishing.
Darnton has won numerous awards in his career, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, earned for The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France, published in 1996. For his extensive work examining French history, the French government honored Darnton as a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 2005. President Barack Obama awarded Darnton with the National Humanities Medal in 2011, for his efforts in making knowledge accessible to all.