Harvard: A Novel

John Harvard, a supremely educated Cambridge University graduate, concludes that there is no future for him in England’s rapidly changing and oppressive environment. In order to fulfill his life’s ambition to teach and to see education thrive in the New World, he and his wife voyage to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 and start over in the fledgling New England settlements. Lacing together historical and fictional characters and events, HARVARD is an epic, heart-stirring tale that carries the reader back to the humble beginnings of the college that has become the world’s most famous institution of higher learning—Harvard University.