Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Shakespeare Studies at Linfield University. He helped to edit The Norton Shakespeare, and his articles on Shakespeare and contemporary culture have appeared recently in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His fictional version of Shakespeare's quarantine diary, "What Shakespeare Actually Did During the Plague," is being adapted into a film for public television. The scholar-in-residence at the Portland Shakespeare Project and a frequent guest lecturer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he met his wife in a fifth-grade production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
