Aaron T. Pratt

Aaron T. Pratt is Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is a specialist in bibliography, the history of the book, and the literature and culture of early modern England. His writing has appeared in a number of venues, including Fine Books and Collections, The Library, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, the Times Literary Supplement,and edited collections published by Oxford and Cambridge. In 2023, he curated a major exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center, The Long Lives of Very Old Books, and in 2026 he co-curated another Ransom Center exhibition that was organized in collaboration with the John Rylands Library: Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt. Pratt is coeditor of a companion volume for the second of these, published by Manchester University Press.