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Michael Rosen facts for kids
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.
Early life
Michael Wayne Rosen was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex, on 7 May 1946. His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia, and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund. His middle name was given to him in honour of Wayne C. Booth, a literary critic who was billeted with his father at Shrivenham American University.
Rosen's father, educationalist Harold Rosen (1919–2008), was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, but grew up in the East End of London from the age of two after his mother left his father and returned to her native England. Harold attended Davenant Foundation School and then Regent Street Polytechnic. He was a secondary school teacher before becoming a pr
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Michael Rosen
British children's author and poet (born 1946)
For other people named Michael Rosen, see Michael Rosen (disambiguation).
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written over 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.[1]
Early life and education
Michael Wayne Rosen[2] was born into a Jewish family in Harrow, Middlesex,[3] on 7 May 1946.[4] His ancestors were Jews from an area that is now Poland, Romania, and Russia,[3] and his family had connections to The Workers Circle and the Jewish Labour Bund.[5] His middle name was given to him in honour of
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Short Biography
Michael Rosen is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University.
He has worked on a wide variety of topics in philosophy, social theory, and the history of ideas, but is particularly known for his work on 19 th and 20 th century European philosophy and contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy. He teaches courses on German Idealism, Hegel, Marx, Adorno, Rawls, and on various topics in contemporary political philosophy.
After taking his undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, he did graduate work at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt before returning to Oxford where he wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Charles Taylor.
He was a Special Fellow in Politics at Merton College, Oxford and a Lecturer in Philosophy at University College London before becoming Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1990. He came to Harvard in 2006.
Rosen is the author of numerous articles and several books: Hegel’s Dialectic and
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