Gary Saul Morson, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Russian Literature at Northwestern University. His book Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (Yale, 1994) won the René Wellek prize of the American Comparative Literature Association while Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford, 1990), co-authored with Caryl Emerson, won the Best Scholarly Book of the year award from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. His article “Solzhenitsyn’s Cathedrals” was awarded a 2017 New York Times Sidney Award for best long-form essays of 2017. Among his numerous teaching awards, the Kohl Education Prize for 2018 is the most recent. His widely reviewed study, Cents and Sensibility: What Economics can Learn from the Humanities (Princeton, 2017), co-authored with economist Morton Schapiro, just appeared in a paperback edition.