Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books
Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington.
Author Eric Marshall White will share his fresh insights into Gutenberg’s life and accomplishments, including correctives to old legends and conjectures.
Dr. White’s presentation about his recently published book Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books will focus on what we really know about Gutenberg and how we know it, with thoughts on how we teach the subject within a more global history of books.
About our speaker
Eric Marshall White, PhD, Scheide Librarian and Assistant University Librarian for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, joined the Princeton University Library staff in 2015. Until 2020, he served as Princeton’s Curator of Rare Books, building on 18 years of experience as Curator of Special Collections at Southern Methodist University’s Bridwell Library in Dallas. He was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, earned his doctorate in Art History from Boston University, and later received a Master of Library Science degree from the University of North Texas. He is a leader in the study of early European printed books and the material and historical evidence of their use and survival. His publications include more than fifty scholarly articles, major exhibition catalogues, and two books: Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books (2025), and Editio princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible (2017), which won SHARP’s DeLong Prize as the year’s outstanding book in the field of book history.
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