Andrew David Mark Pettegree CBE FBA is a British historian and an expert on the European Reformation, the history of the book and media transformations.
[citation needed] In 2010 he published an interpretative work reassessing the early impact of the printing press, The Book in the Renaissance.
The book demonstrates that this period was, like our own, a rich, multi-media environment of manuscript and print, correspondence and conversation, gossip and song.
This prize, awarded annually by the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, honours the book that best fulfils the objective of improving democratic governance through an examination of the intersection between the media, politics and public policy.
[11] Pettegree was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to literature.