A member of CHS's class of 1961, John F. Andrews holds degrees from Princeton (A.B. 1965), Harvard (M.A.T. 1966), and Vanderbilt (Ph.D. 1971), and has taught at several universities (among them Florida State and Georgetown).

He spent a decade (1974-84) at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill, where he edited Shakespeare Quarterly, oversaw an extensive book-publishing operation, and chaired a Renaissance institute that was co-sponsored by more than twenty universities, among them Duke, Johns Hopkins, Virginia, and Yale.

Meanwhile he chaired a National Advisory Panel for The Shakespeare Plays (a six-year BBC series), hosted a WET lecture series that aired on NPR, and helped produce Shakespeare: The Globe and the World, a popular eight-city touring exhibition. He then helped create The Shakespeare Hour, a follow-up PBS series with Walter Matthau as host.

After three years at the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984-87), Mr.

Andrews began focusing on projects with Scribners (two 3-volume sets about Shakespeare's world, work, and influence), Doubleday (a Literary Guild edition of the playwright's classics), and Orion (a series of Everyman Shakespeare paperbacks). In the early '90s he established The Shakespeare Guild and launched a prestigious award in the name of Sir John Gielgud (with New York ceremonies at the Barrymore Theatre, Lincoln Center, and the National Arts Club, and London festivities at BAFTA, Middle Temple Hall, and the Guildhall), honoring such stars as F. Murray Abraham, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Kevin Kline, lan McKellen, Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave, and Patrick Stewart.

Mr. Andrews has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and he has appeared on CBS's Nightwatch with Charlie Rose, NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and C-SPAN's weekend Book TV. He has lectured not only in Egypt, Japan, and throughout the U.S., but in such U.K. settings as Oxford, Cambridge, and Stratford-upon-Avon. During a July 2000 ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, he became an O.B.E., an honorary Officer of the British Empire.

Five years later, while overseeing the DC Branch of the English-Speaking Union, he helped organize a BBC Radio 4 lecture series to commemorate Alistair Cooke, with Senator John McCain as its inaugural speaker.

Since 2007 Mr. Andrews and his wife, artist Jan Denton, have resided in Santa Fe. They love being back in their native state, and it permits Mr. Andrews not only to serve on the boards of organizations such as the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, but to chair the Mayor's Cultural Development Council in Carlsbad.