In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’ death, hear from William Egginton in this lecture, “The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World”. Egginton discusses Miguel de Cervantes’ life, the world he lived in, and how his work—especially Don Quixote—radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. William Egginton is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.