The Author
Robin
P. Williams is the author of dozens of best-selling and award-winning
books about design, typography, the web, and the Macintosh computer. In Sweet
Swan of Avon, she turns to a project that has been on her mind for
thirty years.
Although the authorship of the Shakespearean canon may seem like a far cry from computer books, Robin approaches the topic with the same calm, clear-headed consistency that she uses to unravel and explain difficult technology.
An Independent Scholar, Robin has studied Shakespeare at St. John's College
in Santa Fe and Oxford University in England. She teaches Shakespeare
for adults and guides two play readings a month at
The Mermaid Tavern. She runs ten-week guided discussions of selected plays
for advanced readers, called The Understanders. For three years she has
been a featured speaker at the Authorship Conference at Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre in London. Robin is an Associate Member, by invitation of Mark Rylance,
of the Shakespearean Authorship Trust in London, founded in 1922.
Robin will be the first American with a Masters degree in Shakespearean Authorship when she completes her studies in September 2010. She has been accepted as a PhD candidate at Brunel University in London and will focus on a return to the art of reading Shakespeare, preferably aloud and in groups.
Robin's personal bio, more information than you need.
The Shakespeare Papers, Robin's labor of love.