Aaron T. Pratt is Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Harry Ransom Center, a special collections library, archive, and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching focus on bibliography, the history of the book, and the literature and culture of early modern England. His writing has appeared in a number of venues, both academic public, including Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, The Library, Fine Books and Collections, and edited collections published by Oxford and Cambridge. His first major exhibition, The Long Lives of Very Old Books, was on view at the Ransom Center in the autumn of 2023.