abstract:James Shapiro, MD was born in Leeds, England and obtained his medical degree at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is currently a Canadian Research Chair in transplantation and the Director of the Clinical Islet Transplant Program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by JamesShapiro is a history of the nonsense called the "authorship question": the idea that William Shakespeare did not write his own works, that there was a widespread conspiracy to hide the identity of the true author or authors.