Harlow Robinson

Harlow Robinson is an author, lecturer and Matthews Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History at Northeastern University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and of the Department of History. His books include Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians (Northeastern/UPNE); Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography (Viking, and four other editions); Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev (Northeastern); and The Last Impresario: The Life, Times and Legacy of Sol Hurok (Viking/Penguin). His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Opera Quarterly, Opera, Musical America, Slavic Review, Russian Review and elsewhere.  As a lecturer, he has appeared at The Boston Symphony, Lincoln Center, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Bard Festival, Carnegie Hall, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Museum. He has contributed commentary to NPR, WGBH, WNYC, the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, IREX, and the Whiting Foundation, he was named in 2010 an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a biography of director Lewis Milestone, scheduled to appear in 2019.