SOF Launches New Series of Essays on “How I Became an Oxfordian”
November 20, 2015 — The Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship (SOF) welcomes Bob Meyers, President Emeritus of the National Press Foundation, who will edit a new series of essays by our members on how they became Oxfordians.
Bob wants to hear from you about how you became an Oxfordian. Every Oxfordian has his or her own story about the events that led to that moment of recognition when it became clear that Oxford had to be the real Shakespeare.
Every Oxfordian’s story is unique — and an inspiration to other Oxfordians and to people new to the authorship question. See the guidelines below on how to submit your essay.
Bob Meyers worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an assistant city editor at the San Diego Union. While at the Post he worked on the Watergate investigation, focusing on the “dirty tricks” campaign that was a part of the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work. As a Post staffer he was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. He has written two books, Like Normal People and D.E.S.: The Bitter Pill, the first of which was the basis for a TV movie and the latter of which won the American Medical Writers Association Award for Excellence in Biomedical Writing.
In 1993, Bob joined the National Press Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and train journalists on critical issues confronting the public. He was appointed president of the foundation in 1995 and retired in 2015. Bob has been director of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health. He has lectured at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and in Lithuania, Poland, and Estonia, among other places.
Please submit your essay on how you became an Oxfordian (500 words or less) in an editable format such as MS Word. You can send it, along with a digital photo of yourself, to: communications@shakespeareoxfordfellowship.org. Also include a sentence about yourself, e.g.: “Jane Smith is a business owner in Dallas.” You must be an SOF member to submit an essay.
To join the SOF see our membership page. To read all the essays in this series, click here.
You can read here Bob’s own story about how he became an Oxfordian.
