{"name": "Alfred Harbage", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "> Alfred Bennett Harbage was born in Philadelphia and received his undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He lectured on Shakespeare both there and at Columbia before becoming a professor at Harvard University, where he taught for many years. He was the General Editor of the Pelican Books edition of the works of Shakespeare.\r\n\r\n>He wrote a number of well-received books on Shakespeare's works. Though best known for his work on Shakespeare, he did important work on a range of seventeenth-century figures. He also wrote crime fiction under the pen name Thomas Kyd (a reference to the 16th-century English playwright Thomas Kyd), publishing several stories in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, as well as four novels.\r\n>>[From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Harbage]"}, "personal_name": "Alfred Harbage", "birth_date": "18 July 1901", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q1243441", "isni": "0000000109321829", "viaf": "108879346", "lc_naf": "n50019143", "opac_sbn": "IEIV027430"}, "alternate_names": ["Alfred Bennett Harbage", "Alfred B. Harbage", "Thomas Kyd"], "death_date": "2 May 1976", "links": [{"title": "Library of Congress Authority File", "url": "https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50019143", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Wikipedia entry", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Harbage", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "key": "/authors/OL1520677A", "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T18:23:39.096421"}}