At Day’s Close – Roger Ekirch

Scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historiansthose that unfold at night.

Author

A. Roger Ekirch (1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998. He is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles” (The American Historical Review, 2001) and later in his book At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past (W.W. Norton, 2005).