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19th Century Russian Masters
Perhaps no other national literature is so adept at plumbing the depth...
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2025 Winter Sale
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A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne (1882–1956) was born in London in 1882. He was educated...
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A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan (1929–1993) was born Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan in Mysore, India,...
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A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt’s most recent book is Ragnarok: The End of the...
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A.C. Graham
Angus Charles Graham (1919-1991) was born in Penarth, Wales. He studied theology...
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A.J.A. Symons
A.J.A. Symons (1900-1941) pursued a wide variety of projects in his short...
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A.O. Scott
A. O. Scott is a film critic at The New York Times...
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Aaron Kerner
Aaron Kerner completed an MFA at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge,...
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Abdellatif Laâbi
Abdellatif Laâbi is a poet, novelist, playwright, translator, and political activist. He...
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Abner Dean
Abner Dean (1910–1982) was born and lived in New York City. He...
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Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), the son of a provincial linen weaver and flax...
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Adam Cullen
Adam Cullen is a freelance translator of Estonian prose, poetry, and drama....
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Adam Gopnik
Author of the beloved best seller Paris to the Moon, Adam Gopnik...
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Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The New...
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Adam Mars-Jones
Adam Mars-Jones was born in London, where he lives and works. His...
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Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik is a Polish newspaper editor, writer, and historian. He was...
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Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, activist, and professor....
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Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz is the US Editor of the London Review of Books...
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Adam Sisman
Adam Sisman is the author of several biographies, most recently of John...
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Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell is the author of three novels, Politics, The Escape, and...
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was born in Buenos Aires, the child of...
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Adrian Nathan West
Adrian Nathan West is a writer and literary translator living in Spain. His criticism...
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Adrian van den Hoven
Adrian van den Hoven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Windsor...
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Adriana Calinescu
Adriana Calinescu is the Thomas T. Solley curator emerita of ancient art...
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Adrienne Adams
Adrienne Adams (1906–2002) was a children’s book illustrator who won two Caldecott...
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Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille (1905–1993) was born in New York City, the daughter of...
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Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif is a novelist and a writer on political and cultural...
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Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid has been writing about Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the...
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Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch is a multimedia artist and author of several book-length comics. An...
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Aidan Rooney
Aidan Rooney (b. 1965, Monaghan, Ireland) is a teacher at Thayer Academy in...
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Ainsley Morse
Ainsley Morse teaches literature and translation at the University of California, San Diego,...
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Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma was born in Delhi, India, and grew up in Edison,...
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Akin Düzakin
Akin Düzakin is a Turkish-Norwegian illustrator and children’s author. He received the...
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Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez is the author of Risky Business, a selection of essays,...
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Alan Garner
Alan Garner (b. 1934) has lived for most of his life in...
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Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen...
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Alastair Reid
Alastair Reid (1926–2014) was a poet, prose chronicler, translator, and traveler. Born...
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Albert Cohen
Abert Cohen was born on the island of Corfu in 1895. He...
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Albert Cossery
Albert Cossery (1913–2008) was a Cairo-born French writer of Lebanese and Greek...
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Albert Mobilio
Albert Mobilio is a poet and critic. His books of poetry include...
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Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel is an anthologist, translator, and author of several books of...
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Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), the child of a wealthy family, was raised at...
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Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean poet and the author of four novels...
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Aleksandar Tišma
Aleksandar Tišma (1924–2003) was born in the Vojvodina, a former province of...
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Aleksander Wat
Aleksander Wat (1900-1967), the nom de plume of Aleksander Chwat, was born...
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Aleksandra Zając
Aleksandra Zając (b. 1988), a graduate of the Art Department at Opole...
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Alex Abramovich
Alex Abramovich has been an editor of Feed, Flavorpill, and Very Short...
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Alex Andriesse
Alex Andriesse is an editor at New York Review Books. He has translated,...
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Alex Fleming
Alex Fleming is a translator of Swedish and Russian literature and children’s...
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Alex Niemi
Alex Niemi is a writer and award-winning literary translator. She is the recipient of...
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Alexa Frank
Alexa Frank is an editor and translator of Japanese. A graduate of...
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Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman was born of a prosperous Jewish family in Russia in...
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Alexander Boguslawski
Alexander Boguslawski (1951-2024) was a professor of Russian studies at Rollins College...
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Alexander Dawe
Alex Dawe has translated Tanpinar's The Time Regulation Institute, for which he won...
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was born in Moscow and brought up mainly by...
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Alexander Starritt
Alexander Starritt is a writer, translator, and journalist who lives in London....
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Alexander Theroux
Alexander Theroux is an American novelist, poet, and essayist. His most recent...
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Alexander Vvedensky
Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) was born into the liberal intelligentsia of St. Petersburg...
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Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman is the author of Intimations, a short story collection, and...
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Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851-1911) was born and raised on the Aegean island of...
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Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (1878–1957) was born in German Stettin (now the Polish city of...
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Alfred Hayes
Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) was born into a Jewish family in Whitechapel, London,...
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Alfred Ollivant
Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was born in Old Charlton, Kent, the son of...
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Alice and Martin Provensen
Alice (1918–2018) and Martin Provensen (1916–1987) illustrated more than forty books together,...
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Alice Goodman
Alice Goodman is a poet, librettist, and Anglican priest. She serves as...
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Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (1901–1991) was born Alice Henriette Alberta Herdan-Harris von Valbonne und...
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Alice Kaplan
Alice Kaplan is the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale...
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Alice Paalen Rahon
Alice Paalen Rahon (1904–1987) was born Alice Marie Yvonne Philippot in Chenecey-Buillon,...
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Alicia López
Alicia López is a translator and sculptor. She grew up in San...
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Alison Leslie Gold
Alison Leslie Gold (1945-2025) was the author of Anne Frank Remembered (written...
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Alison Lurie
Alison Lurie is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature Emerita at...
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Alison Uttley
Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born Alice Jane Taylor in Derbyshire, England, into...
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Alissa Valles
Alissa Valles is an author and translator. She has been a recipient...
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Alistair Horne
Alistair Horne (1925-2017) was educated in Switzerland, at Millbrook School, New York,...
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All About Paris
The City of Light as glimpsed through the eyes of expatriates and...
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Allison Markin Powell
Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She received...
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Alvin Tresselt
Alvin Tresselt (1916–2000) was a children’s book author whose books have sold more...
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Alyson Waters
Alyson Waters is a prize-winning translator of literary fiction from French to English....
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Amaia Gabantxo
Amaia Gabantxo is a writer, a flamenco singer and literary translator specialized...
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Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig is a British novelist, short-story writer and critic. Born in South...
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Amanda DeMarco
Amanda DeMarco is an American writer and translator based in Berlin, translating from...
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Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman was born in London in 1968 and educated at Sarah...
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Amanda Fortini
Amanda Fortini is a columnist for County Highway, a frequent contributor to T: The New...
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Amelia Rosselli
Amelia Rosselli (1930–1996) was a poet, translator, musician, and musicologist, born in Paris...
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American Classics
Quintessentially American novels by four American masters. Buy all four books at...
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American Noir
These novels by three American masters are filled with deception, suspense, and...
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Amina Cain
Amina Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy and two collections...
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Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. A fellow of...
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Amy Abugo Ongiri
Amy Abugo Ongiri is an associate professor and the Jill Beck Director...
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Amy Gentry
Amy Gentry is the author of the novels Good as Gone, a...
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Anakana Schofield
Anakana Schofield is the author of three acclaimed novels: Bina, Martin John, and Malarky. She has...
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Andrea Bajani
Andrea Bajani (Rome, 1975) is one of the most respected and award-winning...
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Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is the author of five novels, most recently The Voyage...
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Andrea Lingenfelter
Andrea Lingenfelter is an award-winning translator, poet, and scholar of Sinophone literature. Her numerous...
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Andrea Rosenberg
Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations...
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Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis is a poet, cabinetmaker, and visual artist. His current project...
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Andrew F. Jones
Andrew F. Jones is a literary translator and professor of Chinese at...
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Andrew Hussey
Andrew Hussey is a professor of cultural history in the School of...
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Andrew J. Nathan
Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at...
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Andrew Jamieson
Andrew Jamieson trained at the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling and...
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Andrew Rubens
Andrew Rubens is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Benjamin Fondane at...
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Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Artforum, and...
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Andrey Platonov
Andrey Platonovich Platonov (1899–1951) was the son of a railway worker. The...
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Andrzej Klimowski
Andrzej Klimowski studied at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the Warsaw...
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André Aciman
André Aciman is the author of the novels Eight White Nights and...
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André Breton
André Breton (1896–1966), the son of a Norman policeman and a seamstress, studied...
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André Gide
André Gide (1869–1951) was born in Paris to a wealthy Protestant family...
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André Naffis-Sahely
André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised...
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Angela Rodel
Angela Rodel is a literary translator. In 1996 she was awarded a...
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Angus Wilson
Angus Wilson (1913–1991) worked as a deputy superintendent of the British Museum...
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Anita Brookner
Anita Brookner is an art historian and novelist. She lives in London.
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Anita Desai
Anita Desai is a novelist, short-story writer, and author of children’s books....
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Anjelica Huston
Angelica Huston is an actress and director. Born in Santa Monica, California,...
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Anka Muhlstein
Anka Muhlstein was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1996 for her biography of Astolphe...
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Anke Feuchtenberger
Anke Feuchtenberger is a German artist. She studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin....
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Ann Goldstein
Ann Goldstein is an editor and translator from the Italian language. Best known...
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Anna Aslanyan
Anna Aslanyan’s translations into Russian include works of fiction by Mavis Gallant,...
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Anna Badkhen
Anna Badkhen was born in the Soviet Union and is now an...
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Anna Kavan
Anna Kavan (1901–1968) was born Helen Woods to wealthy British parents in...
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Anna Lehmann
Anna Lehmann has translated selected songs from Patrick Modiano’s Fonds de tiroir...
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Anna Moschovakis
Anna Moschovakis is a translator and editor, and the author of several books...
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Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (n.e Netty Reiling; 1900–1983) was born in Mainz, Germany, into...
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Anna Starobinets
Anna Starobinets is an acclaimed, award-winning Russian novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. Best...
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Anna Vilner
Anna Vilner graduated from the University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing...
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Anne Barton
Anne Barton is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. She is the...
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Anne Carson
Anne Carson is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University...
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Anne Carter
Anne Carter has translated various books from the French, including works by...
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Anne Enright
Anne Enright is the author of several books of fiction, most recently...
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Anne Marie Jackson
Anne Marie Jackson has lived for extended periods in Russia and Moldova....
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Anne McLean
Anne McLean has translated works by Javier Cercas, Evelio Rosero, Juan Gabriel...
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Anne Milano Appel
Anne Milano Appel has translated nearly four dozen books from Italian into...
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Annette Wiesner
Annette Wiesner’s translations of Robert Walser have appeared in Connecticut Review, Kestrel,...
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Annie Schlechter
Annie Schlechter has been working as a photographer since 1998. She spent...
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Anouchka Grose
Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst and writer practicing in London and a member...
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Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb (1901–1945) was born in Budapest into a middle-class family that...
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Anthea Bell
Anthea Bell (1936–2018) was the recipient of the 2009 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for...
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Anthony Berris
Anthony Berris was born in the UK and has lived in Israel...
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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) was a prolific novelist, composer, librettist, essayist, semanticist, translator,...
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Anthony Grafton
Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities...
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Anthony Sattin
Anthony Sattin is a journalist, broadcaster, and former resident of Cairo. Among...
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Anti–Valentine’s Day Sale
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Antoine Caro
Antoine Caro has headed the French publishing house Éditions Seghers since 2021.
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Antoine Volodine
One of the most important figures in France’s contemporary literary landscape, Antoine Volodine writes...
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) the son of a grocer and serf, worked as...
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Anton Shammas
Anton Shammas (b. 1950) is a Palestinian writer and translator of Arabic,...
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Antonella Anedda
Antonella Anedda is an Italian poet, short story writer, essayist, and translator. She...
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Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Antonia Lloyd-Jones is the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the...
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Antonina W. Bouis
Antonina W. Bouis translates works of fiction and nonfiction from the Russian,...
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Antonio Di Benedetto
Antonio di Benedetto (1922–1986) began his career as a journalist, writing for...
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Antonio Moresco
Antonio Moresco was born in Mantua and lives in Milan. He is...
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Antonio Romani
Antonio Romani's translations of poems by Italian poet Giampiero Neri have been...
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Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa in 1943 and died in Lisbon...
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Aparna Halpé
Aparna Halpé is a poet and a professor of English at Centennial College. Her...
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Apostolos Doxiadis
Apostolos Doxiadis is a novelist and essayist writing in Greek and English. Among...
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Archipelago Books
Archipelago Books is a nonprofit press devoted to contemporary & classic world...
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Argentine Classics
Chronicles that explore the deterioration of the mind and morality, in stunning...
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Ari Larissa Heinrich
Ari Larissa Heinrich received a master’s in Chinese literature from Harvard and...
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Ariane Koch
Ariane Koch was born in Basel and studied fine arts and interdisciplinarity....
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Armine Kotin Mortimer
Armine Kotin Mortimer is the translator of Philippe Sollers’s Mysterious Mozart (University of...
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Artemis Cooper
Artemis Cooper is the author of several books, including Cairo in the...
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Arthur C. Danto
Arthur C. Danto (1924-2013) was the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) graduated from Edinburgh University with a medical...
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Arthur Rimbaud
Born in northeastern France, Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) is widely considered the quintessential French...
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Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was born in Vienna to a well-to-do Austrian Jewish...
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Arun Kolatkar
Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004) was born in the town of Kolhapur in the...
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Arunava Sinha
Arunava Sinha has translated Mani Sankar Mukherji's Chowringhee and The Middleman, Moti Nandy's Striker Stopper,...
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Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is a prominent Indian novelist, political activist, and non-fiction writer....
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was born in Lahore in 1947 and grew up...
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Asa Yoneda
Asa Yoneda was born in Osaka and studied language, literature, and translation...
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Asif Farrukhi
Asif Farrukhi is a Pakistani doctor, writer, and translator who translates from...
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Astolphe de Custine
Astolphe de Custine (1790-1857) was born at the onset of the French...
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Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) was born in Vimmerby, Sweden, and grew up with...
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Attila Bartis
Attila Bartis (born 1968) is a Romanian-born Hungarian writer, photographer, dramatist and...
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Augusto Higa Oshiro
Augusto Higa Oshiro (b. 1946, Lima) studied Peruvian and Latin American literature...
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Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso (1921–2003) was a Honduran-born Guatemalan writer. A prominent member of...
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Aviva Kana
Aviva Kana is a scholar and literary translator. Her work focuses on Latin...
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Avril Bardoni
Avril Bardoni (1936–2017) was a translator of opera libretti and literature, most...
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Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi is the author of Call Me Zebra...
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Bachtyar Ali
Bachtyar Ali (also spelled Bakhtiyar Ali) is one of the most prominent...
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Back to School Sale 2025
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Barbara Bray
Barbara Bray (1924–2010) was a translator of twentieth-century French literature into English....
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Barbara Comyns
Barbara Comyns (1907–1992) was born in England in 1909 and raised in...
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Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein (1928–2006) worked in publishing and at The Partisan Review before...
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Barbara Hahn
Barbara Hahn is a professor emerita of German studies at Vanderbilt University....
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Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym (1913–1980) was born in Shropshire and educated at Oxford. After serving...
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Barbara Sleigh
Barbara Sleigh (1906-1982) worked for the BBC Children’s Hour and is the...
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Barbara Trapido
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous...
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Barbara Wright
Barbara Wright is one of the premier English translators of modern French...
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Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Throughout her career, Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel has served as a leading voice on some of...
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Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford’s books include Sailor and Lula: The Complete Novels, The Roy...
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Barry Schwabsky
Barry Schwabsky is the art critic for The Nation and an editor...
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Basil Creighton
Basil Creighton (1886–1989) translated many notable works of German literature, including Hermann...
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Bastille Day Sale
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Bella Cohen
Bella Cohen was born in London on 1919. During WWII, she worked...
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Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner is the author of nine books of poetry and prose...
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Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus is the author of five books of fiction: Notes from the Fog, The...
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Ben Ratliff
Ben Ratliff has been a jazz and pop critic for The New...
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Ben Sonnenberg
Ben Sonnenberg (1936–2010) was born into a wealthy family in Manhattan. His...
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Benedetta Craveri
Benedetta Craveri is a Professor of French literature. She taught for many years...
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Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) was born into a middle-class family in Las...
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Benjamin Fondane
Benjamin Fondane (1898–1944) was a Romanian Jew who emigrated to France in...
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Benjamin Fondane and Jean D'Ormesson
For a limited time, these new titles are available at 30% off.
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Benjamin Kunkel
Benjamin Kunkel is the author of the novel Indecision and a founding...
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Benjamin Moser
Benjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice...
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Benjamin Swett
Benjamin Swett is the author of Route 22 and New York City of Trees, which won...
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Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The...
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Beppe Fenoglio
Beppe Fenoglio (1922–1963) was born into a working- class family in Alba, in...
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Bernard Johnson
Bernard Johnson (1933–2003) was affiliated with the Language Centre at the London...
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Bernard Knox
Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director...
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Bernard Wolfe
Bernard Wolfe (1915–1985) was born in New Haven and attended Yale University,...
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Bernardo Zannoni
Bernardo Zannoni is an Italian author from Sarzana. Zannoni began working on his...
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Bertrand Badiou
Bertrand Badiou is the co-director of the Paul Celan Department at the...
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Beryl Stockman
Beryl Stockman is a translator, poet, and professional psychic and tarot reader....
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Betty Jean Lifton
Betty Jean Lifton discovered a passion for Japanese culture and folklore while...
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Between the Wars Sale
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Between the World Wars
Set in the fraught time period between World Wars I and II,...
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Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston is Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His translations...
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Bill Kartalopoulos
Bill Kartalopoulos is a comics scholar, educator, curator, and editor. He is...
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Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, and the author...
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Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is the former host of NOW with Bill Moyers on...
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Billy Collins
Billy Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including Nine...
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Birgitta Trotzig
Birgitta Trotzig is one of the 20th century’s most important Scandinavian voices. She...
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Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961) was the pseudonym of Frédéric Sauser, the Swiss son...
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Bob Gill
Bob Gill (1931-2021) was a designer, illustrator, writer, filmmaker, teacher, and New...
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Bob Rosenthal
Bob Rosenthal is a writer and poet who studied under Paul Carroll, Ted...
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Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of the...
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Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) was born Aleksander Głowacki in the provincial town of...
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Bonnie Huie
Bonnie Huie is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. Her...
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Book Bundles
Book Bundles are currently unavailable These collections of titles from NYRB Classics,...
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Books for Father's Day
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Books for Mother’s Day
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Books for Presidents' Day 2017
(Banner image credit: Mobilus in Mobili, 2016.) Fiction and nonfiction about political...
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Boris Belenkin
Boris Belenkin is a writer, historian, and activist born in Moscow. Since...
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Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk’s most recent translations include Leo Tolstoy’s Lives and Deaths and...
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Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, was awarded...
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Borislav Pekić
Borislav Pekić (1930–1992) was born in Montenegro and educated in Belgrade, where...
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Brad Neely
Brad Neely is the creator/showrunner of the TV series: China, IL and Brad Neely's...
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Brais Lamela
Brais Lamela is a writer in Galician and a PhD candidate at Yale...
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Brenda Wineapple
Brenda Wineapple’s books include Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 and...
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Breon Mitchell
Breon Mitchell is a professor emeritus of Germanic studies and comparative literature...
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Breyten Breytenbach
An outspoken human rights activist, Breyten Breytenbach is a poet, painter, memoirist,...
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Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence,...
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Brian Evenson
Brian Evenson is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction....
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Brian Moore
Brian Moore (1921–1999) was born into a large, devoutly Catholic family in...
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Brian Walker
Brian Walker is the son of Mort Walker and part of the...
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Brothers Grimm
Jakob Karl Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany. His...
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Bruce Baugh
Bruce Baugh is the author of French Hegel: From Surrealism to Postmodernism...
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Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) was a novelist, journalist, and travel writer. Born in...
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Bruce Duffy
Bruce Duffy (1951-2022) was the author of the autobiographical novel Last Comes...
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Bruce Gilley
Bruce Gilley is a doctoral student in politics at Princeton University and...
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Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling is a science-fiction writer and pop-science journalist. He lives in...
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato received an MFA in Fiction from New York University...
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Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974), one of the most celebrated Bengali writers of the...
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Burton Watson
Burton Watson (1925 - 2017) was the foremost English-language translator of classical...
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Bárður Oskarsson
Bárður Oskarsson is a beloved artist and children’s book author from the Faroe...
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Béla Zombory-Moldován
Béla Zombory-Moldován (1885–1967) was born in Munkács (now Mukachevo), in what was...
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C.D. Godwin
C.D. Godwin studied German and Chinese in Edinburgh and Hong Kong. He...
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C.V. Wedgwood
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) was born into an innovative and intellectual English...
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Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu (1948–1996) was one of the most influential Brazilian writers...
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Caitlin McGurk
Caitlin McGurk is the Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the...
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Caleb Crain
Caleb Crain is the author of American Sympathy, a study of friendship...
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Calligrams
The Calligrams series encompasses a wide variety of literature by both Chinese...
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Camara Laye
Camara Laye was born in Guinea in 1924. He studied engineering in...
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Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1989....
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Canaan Morse
Canaan Morse is a translator, poet, and editor. He cofounded the literary...
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Cao Wenxuan
Cao Wenxuan is a professor of literature at Peking University. He is...
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Caren Beilin
Caren Beilin is the author most recently of a nonfiction book, Blackfishing...
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Carl Malmberg
Carl Malmberg (1904–1979) translated more than a dozen books, short stories, and...
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Carl Skoggard
Carl Skoggard is a writer and translator living in Valatie, New York. He...
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Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (1880- 1964) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and...
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Carla Irusta
Carla Irusta is an artist and illustrator. She lives in Curitiba, Brazil.
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Carlin Romano
Carlin Romano is a critic at large for The Chronicle of Higher...
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Carlo Collodi
Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) was the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini. He was...
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Carlo Emilio Gadda
Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973) was born in Milan, where he spent a...
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Carlo Fruttero
Carlo Fruttero (1926–2012) and Franco Lucentini (1920–2002) were decades-long literary collaborators. Together they edited anthologies...
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Carlton Lake
Carlton Lake (1915–2006) was an art critic and collector, and the Paris...
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Carol Cosman
Carol Cosman (1943–2020) translated numerous French books over a range of genres—fiction,...
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Caroline Blackwood
Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She...
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Caroline Schmidt
Caroline Schmidt has translated poetry by Friederike Mayröcker, as well as art historical...
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Caryl Emerson
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III Professor of Slavic Languages and...
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Casey Nelson Blake
Casey Nelson Blake is Professor of History and American Studies at Columbia...
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Catherine Ciepiela
Catherine Ciepiela is a professor of Russian at Amherst College and translator...
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Catherine Cobham
Catherine Cobham teaches Arabic language and literature at St. Andrews University in...
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Catherine Storr
Catherine Storr (1913–2001) was born Catherine Cole and brought up in Kensington,...
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Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine is the author of several novels, including Rameau’s Niece, The...
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Celia Hawkesworth
Celia Hawkesworth has translated nearly forty books from the Serbo-Croatian, including Bosnian...
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Celia Paul
Celia Paul was born in 1959 and studied at the Slade School...
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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country...
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Chad Wellmon
Chad Wellmon is the author of Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the...
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Chandrahas Choudhury
Chandrahas Choudhury grew up in Bombay and his native Odisha, was educated...
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Chantal Montellier
Chantal Montellier is a French novelist, painter, and comics creator. Montellier began working...
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was born in Paris. His father died when he...
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Charles Duff
Charles Duff (1894–1966) served as an officer in the British Merchant Navy...
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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a Swiss novelist whose realistic, poetic, and allegorical...
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Charles Front
Charles Front has illustrated many books, including Never Say Macbeth, The Great...
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Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson is a novelist, essayist, literary scholar, philosopher, cartoonist, screenwriter, and...
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Charles Lee
Charles Lee (1870-1956) was born in London to an artistic family who,...
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Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl is a British-born historian and travel writer based in Italy....
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Charles Simic
Charles Simic (1938-2023) was a poet, essayist, and translator. He has published...
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Charles Tunnicliffe
Charles Tunnicliffe (1901–1979) attended London’s Royal College of Art, where he graduated...
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Charlotte Collins
Charlotte Collins studied English literature at Cambridge and was a radio journalist in...
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Charlotte Hobson
Charlotte Hobson divides her time between translating and writing. She is the...
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Charlotte Mandell
Charlotte Mandell has translated more than forty books, including works by Maurice...
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Charlotte Mosley
Charlotte Mosley lives in Paris and has worked as a publisher and...
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Chen Jiang Hong
Chen Jiang Hong was born in Tianjin, China, where he studied fine art...
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Chen Shih-hsiang
Chen Shih-hsiang (1912–1971) was a professor of Chinese and comparative literature at...
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Chenxin Jiang
Chenxin Jiang was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong....
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Chi-Young Kim
Chi-Young Kim is a literary translator and editor based in Los Angeles....
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Chiyomi Hashiguchi
Chiyomi Hashiguchi (1967–1998), also known by the pen name Nekojiru, was a self-taught manga...
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Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis is a London-based Mexican novelist and writer. Her 2009 novel...
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Chloe Garcia Roberts
Chloe Garcia Roberts is the author of The Reveal, a book of...
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Chris Andrews
Chris Andrews is a translator of Spanish and French literature. He has translated...
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Chris Clarke
Chris Clarke is a literary translator and scholar. He currently teaches in...
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Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka has made more than sixty books for children, including Yo!...
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Chris Reynolds
Chris Reynolds (1960-2023) was born in Wales and studied fine art at...
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Chris Ware
Chris Ware is the author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on...
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Christian Lehnert
Christian Lehnert was born in Dresden in 1969. Since 1995 he has...
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Christian Lorentzen
Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the London Review of Books.
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Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) was a German poet, writer, and translator born in...
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Christina Stead
Christina Stead (1902-1983) was born in Australia but lived for many years...
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Christine Angot
Christine Angot is one of the most controversial authors writing today in...
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Christophe Ylla-Somers
Christophe Ylla-Somers is the son-in-law of Yvan Pommaux. He is also a...
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Christopher Benfey
Christopher Benfey is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke. He is...
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Christopher Cahill
Christopher Cahill is the author of Perfection, a novel, and editor of...
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Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked...
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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for...
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Christopher Looby
Christopher Looby is the author of Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and...
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Christopher Middleton
Christopher Middleton (b. 1926) is a poet, essayist, and translator. He teaches...
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Christopher Priest
Christopher Priest (1943-2024) was born in Cheshire, England. He wrote novels and...
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Christopher Ricks
Christopher Ricks teaches at Boston University in the Core Curriculum and the...
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Christos Ikonomou
Christos Ikonomou was born in Athens in 1970. He has published four...
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Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast. He has been awarded...
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Claire Harman
Claire Harman’s first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published...
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Claire Huchet Bishop
Claire Huchet Bishop (1899–1993) was a librarian, storyteller, critic, and writer. She...
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Claire Malroux
Claire Malroux is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including...
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Claire Messud
Claire Messud is the author of four novels and a book of...
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Clara Winston
Clara Winston (1921–1983) was a celebrated American translator of German literature. She...
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Clare Carlisle
Clare Carlisle is the author of eight books on philosophy and philosophers, including Philosopher...
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Clare Cavanagh
Clare Cavanagh is an American literary critic, translator, and the chair of...
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Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown (1929–2015) was the author of several works on Osip Mandelstam,...
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Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine....
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Clarissa Dickson Wright
Clarissa Dickson Wright is best known as half of TV’s Two Fat...
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Claude Anet
Jean Schopfer (1868–1931), who wrote under the pseudonym Claude Anet, was born in Switzerland...
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Claude Ponti
Claude Ponti is one of France’s most celebrated children’s writers and illustrators....
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Claude Simon
Claude Simon (1913–2005) was born in Madagascar and, after his father was...
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Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) was a renowned essayist, critic, and anthologist, and was...
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Clive James
Clive James was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1939 and has lived...
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Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of twenty books of poetry; a collection of...
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Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is the president of the Royal Society of Literature. Among...
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Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels. He is the Irene...
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Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the author of five novels, including Zone One, Sag...
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Constance Garnett
Constance Garnett (1861–1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature, and...
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Constance Rourke
Constance Rourke (1885-1941) was a historian, anthropologist, and critic who revolutionized the...
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Corsino Fortes
Corsino Fortes was born in 1933 on Cape Verde's São Vicente Island. Poet,...
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Craig Brown
Craig Brown is the author of Hello Goodbye Hello, The Lost Diaries,...
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Cristina Campo
Cristina Campo (1923–1977) was born in Bologna and brought up in Florence....
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The...
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Curzio Malaparte
Curzio Malaparte (pseudonym of Kurt Erich Suckert, 1898–1957) was born in Prato, Italy,...
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Cynthia Zarin
Cynthia Zarin’s books include The Ada Poems, Orbit, An Enlarged Heart: A...
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) was born into an Igbo family in a small...
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Cyprian Norwid
Cyprian Norwid (1821-1883), poet, playwright, novelist, thinker, and visual artist, was virtually...
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Cyril Birch
Cyril Birch is a translator and the Agassiz Professor of Chinese and...
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Cyrus Brooks
Cyrus Brooks translated works by Alfred Neumann, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Leonhard Frank...
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Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. Over the course of...
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Cécile Menon
Cécile Menon is a translator between French and English and the founder...
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Céleste Albaret
Céleste Albaret (1892-1984) was born into a peasant family in the mountainous...
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César Vallejo
César Vallejo (1892–1938) was a Peruvian poet who lived most of his...
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D. B. Wyndham Lewis
Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (1894-1969) was born in Wales and educated at...
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D. G. Compton
David Guy Compton was born in London in 1930. It quickly became...
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D. M. Black
D. M. Black is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently Claiming Kindred (2011)...
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930), a novelist, storywriter, critic, poet, and painter, was one...
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Damion Searls
Damion Searls is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a...
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Dan Hofstadter
Dan Hofstadter’s last book was The Love Affair as a Work of...
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Daniel Balderston
Daniel Balderston is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the...
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Daniel Clowes
Daniel Clowes is a cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter. He attended the Pratt...
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Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn is the author of a number of works of nonfiction,...
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Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight and...
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Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. His most recent novel,...
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Daniel Martino
Daniel Martino is an editor and an expert on Adolfo Bioy Casares,...
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Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn teaches at Bard College and is Editor-at-Large at The New...
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Daniel Paul Schreber
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was the son of the preeminent nineteenth-century German...
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Daniel Pinkwater
Daniel Pinkwater has written about one hundred books, many of them good....
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Daniel Slager
Prior to moving to Minneapolis in 2005, Daniel Slager selected and edited...
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Danielle Dutton
Danielle Dutton is a cofounder of Dorothy, a publishing project and the...
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) was born into a noble family in Florence. He...
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82), the son of an exiled Italian scholar and...
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Danuta Borchardt
Following a career in psychiatry, Danuta Borchardt began translating the novels of...
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Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was the daughter of the legendary actor-manager Gerald...
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Daphne Merkin
Daphne Merkin is a critic, essayist, and novelist. She is the author...
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Darcy O'Brien
Darcy O’Brien (1939-1998) was born in Los Angeles, the son of the...
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Darius James
Darius James (b. 1954) is a writer and spoken-word performance artist. He...
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Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney is the author of two novels, High Cotton and Black...
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Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney’s and the author of three...
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David Abram
David Abram is the director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. A...
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David Attie
David Attie (1920–1982), a commercial and fine art photographer, began his photographic...
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David Boyd
David Boyd is an Associate Professor of Japanese. He has translated fiction...
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David Bromwich
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books...
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David Brookshaw
David Brookshaw is a London-born professor of Brazilian Studies at the University...
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David Cole
David Cole is the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and...
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David Colmer
David Colmer is a prolific translator of Dutch-language literature. He translates in...
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David Dollenmayer
David Dollenmayer has translated works by Rolf Bauerdick, Bertolt Brecht, Martin Walser,...
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David Hawkes
David Hawkes (1923–2009) was for many years a professor of Chinese and...
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David Hinton
David Hinton is a writer and translator who has produced a body...
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David J. Rothman
David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and History...
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David Jones
David Jones (1895-1974) was born in Kent. His mother was a Londoner,...
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David Kidd
David Kidd (1926–1996) was born in Corbin, Kentucky to a coal-mining community....
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David Leavitt
David Leavitt ’s books include The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan...
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David Lehman
David Lehman’s new book of poems, his sixth, is When a Woman...
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David Lodge
David Lodge is a novelist and critic and Emeritus Professor of English...
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David Malouf
David Malouf is a novelist and poet. His novel The Great World...
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David McKay
David McKay is a translator of Dutch literature living in The Hague....
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David McPhail
David McPhail was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and attended the School of the Museum...
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David Mendel
David Mendel (1922–2007) was born in East London. He was a poor...
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David Moore
David Moore’s translations include Flora Volpini’s The Women of Florence, Dino Alfieri’s...
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David Plante
David Plante was born in 1940 and made his name as a novelist...
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David R. Bunch
David Roosevelt Bunch (1920–2000) was born in rural western Missouri. After serving...
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David Remnick
David Remnick is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin’s Tomb, The Devil...
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David Rieff
David Rieff is the author of ten books, including The Exile: Cuba in...
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David Schenck
David Schenck is a writer and academic, and was a friend of...
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David Shields
David Shields is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books,...
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David Stacton
David Stacton (1923–1968) was born Lionel Kingsley Evans in San Francisco. He...
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David Thomson
David Thomson is film critic at The New Republic and has been...
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David Welsh
David Welsh’s translations include A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki,...
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David Williams
In addition to Miljenko Jergović's Mama Leone, David Williams has translated Dubravka Ugrešić’s Karaoke...
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David Österle
David Österle is a researcher and assistant to the director at the...
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Deborah Devonshire
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (1920-2014) was the youngest and last surviving...
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Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of short stories and...
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Delphine Panique
Delphine Panique is a French comics artist. She has authored several graphic...
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Denis Donoghue
Denis Donoghue is University Professor at New York University, where he holds...
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Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson (1949–2017) was the author of nine novels as well as novellas,...
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Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen is a cartoonist, writer, and publisher. In 1969, after the...
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Denise Riley
Denise Riley’s nonfiction includes War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child...
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Denise Rose Hansen
Denise Rose Hansen is a Danish writer and editor who lives in London....
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Dennis Marks
Dennis Marks (1948–2015) was an acclaimed television producer and broadcast executive, writing...
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Denys Johnson-Davies
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922-2017) translated more than thirty-five books by modern Arab authors,...
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Der Nister
Der Nister (1884-1950) was the pen name used by Pinhas Kahanovitch, a...
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Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (1941-2020) was born in Belfast studied at Trinity College, Dublin,...
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Detectives
Tales of intrigue, political corruption, and contract killing. Buy all three books...
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Devorah Fischler
Devorah Fischler is a writer, editor, and translator based in San Francisco.
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Dezső Kosztolányi
Dezső Kosztolányi (1885-1936) was born in Subotica, a provincial Austro-Hungarian city (located...
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Diana Athill
Diana Athill (1917–2019) helped André Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore...
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Diane and Leo Dillon
Diane and Leo Dillon worked together on more than 50 children’s books...
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Diane DiMassa
Diane DiMassa is an American artist best known for her contributions to the...
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Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is a novelist and critic. She is the author of Lulu in...
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Diane Williams
Diane Williams is the author of several collections of short fiction and the...
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Diego Bianki
Diego Bianki is an illustrator, editor, and designer from Argentina. His work...
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Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati (1906–1972) came from a distinguished family that had long been...
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Distributed Presses
All books distributed by New York Review Books
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Dixon Long
Dixon Long (1933-2022) was the author, along with Ruthanne Long, of the...
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Dominique Fabre
Dominique Fabre possesses a unique voice among contemporary French novelists. Focusing on...
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Dominique Goblet
Dominique Goblet was born in Brussels, Belgium, and studied illustration at St. Luke’s...
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Don Bartlett
Don Bartlett has translated novels by many Danish and Norwegian authors, among...
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Don Carpenter
Don Carpenter (1931-1995) was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up on...
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Donald A. Riggs
Donald A. Riggs is Teaching Professor of English at Drexel University. He...
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Donald Breckenridge
Donald Breckenridge is the fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor of...
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Donald Nicholson-Smith
Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator of French literature. He has translated works...
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Donald Rayfield
Donald Rayfield is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University...
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Donald Winkler
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Donald Winkler is a documentary filmmaker and literary...
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Donatien Grau
Donatien Grau serves as Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Louvre Museum.
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Donna Rifkind
Donna Rifkind is a book critic whose reviews appear in The New...
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Doris Susan Smith
Doris Susan Smith is the author of several children's books, including The Two Rabbits and The...
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Dorothea von Moltke
Dorothea von Moltke (1968-2025) was the co-owner of Labyrinth Books in Princeton,...
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Dorothy B. Hughes
Dorothy B. Hughes (1904–1993) was born Dorothy Belle Flanagan in Kansas City,...
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Dorothy Baker
Dorothy Baker (1907–1968) was born in Missoula, Montana, in 1907 and raised...
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Dorothy Gallagher
Dorothy Gallagher’s works include two volumes of memoir—How I Came into My...
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Dorothy Kunhardt
Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt (1901–1979) was an American author of books for small...
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Dorothy, a publishing project
Dorothy, a publishing project is a St. Louis–based feminist publisher of innovative...
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Doug Headline
Doug Headline is the son of Jean-Patrick Manchette. For over three decades,...
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Douglas J. Penick
Douglas J. Penick has published widely and written texts for operas that...
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Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray is the bestselling author of six books, including The Madness...
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Douglas Parmée
Douglas Parmée (1914–2008) was a lecturer in modern languages at Cambridge and...
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Douglas Smith
Douglas Smith is a translator and historian, and has written several books about...
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Driss Chraïbi
Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007) was born to a merchant family in French Morocco....
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Dror Burstein
Dror Burstein teaches literature at Tel Aviv University. He is the editor...
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Dubravka Ugresic
Dubravka Ugresic is the author of seven works of fiction, including The...
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Duncan Minshull
Duncan Minshull is an anthologist, audio producer, and director of walking tours—“walk...
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Dustin Illingworth
Dustin Illingworth’s writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books,...
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Dwight Macdonald
Dwight Macdonald (1906–1982) was born in New York City and educated at...
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E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to prominent Unitarian...
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E.B. White
E.B. White (1899–1985) was the youngest of six children, born in Mount...
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E.M. Forster
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was a critic and novelist. Among his books are...
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E.O. Plauen
E.O. Plauen was the pseudonym of Erich Ohser (1903–1944). In the 1920s,...
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E.T.A. Hoffman
Prussian-born E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was one of the most influential authors of...
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Early Chapter Books (Ages 5–9)
These page-turners feature a Greenwich Village cat; a tour through a land...
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Ed Subitzky
Ed Subitzky is a cartoonist, humor writer, and performer. A contributing editor...
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Edgardo Cozarinsky
Born in Argentina, Edgardo Cozarinsky is the author of numerous novels, including La...
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Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman (1936-2023) was an award-winning translator of poetry and prose by...
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was born in New York City. Her father, George...
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Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896) and Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870) spent the majority...
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Edmond Baudoin
Edmond Baudoin was born in Nice in 1942. As a young man...
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Edmund Keeley
Edmund Keeley is the Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus and...
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Edmund White
Edmund White (1940-2025) was the author of more than thirty books. His...
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Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) is widely regarded as the preeminent American man of...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)was born in Rockland, Maine, and spent much...
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Edouard Roditi
Edouard Roditi (1910-1992) was born in France. He was an author of...
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Edward Ardizzone
Edward Ardizzone (1900-1979) was born in French Indochina (now Vietnam) and moved...
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Edward Gauvin
Edward Gauvin has translated more than three hundred graphic novels, including Blutch’s...
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Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the...
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Edward Hyams
Edward Hyams won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for Joan of Arc:...
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Edward John Trelawny
Edward John Trelawny (1792-1881) was born into a well-established family from Cornwall....
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Edward Lewis Wallant
Edward Lewis Wallant (1926-1962) won critical acclaim for his novels The Human...
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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University...
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Edwin Frank
Edwin Frank was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University....
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Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber is Professor Emerita of Russian at the University of Massachusetts...
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Eikoh Hosoe
Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024) was one of Japan’s preeminent photographers. His work can...
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Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang (1920–1995) was born in Shanghai to an aristocratic family and educated...
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Eilís Dillon
Eilís Dillon (1920-1994) wrote more than thirty books for young people, as...
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Ekaterina Petrova
Ekaterina Petrova is a literary translator from the Bulgarian and a bilingual nonfiction...
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Elaine Dundy
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) grew up in New York City and Long Island....
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Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) grew up in England in a house filled with...
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Eleanor Goodman
Eleanor Goodman is an American poet and author of the poetry collection...
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Eleanor Perényi
Eleanor Perényi (1918–2009) was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ellis...
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Eli Attie
Eli Attie is a television writer and producer. He served as a...
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Eliana Hernández-Pachón
Eliana Hernández-Pachón researches contemporary Latin American literature and visual art, gender studies,...
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Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury is a literary critic, novelist, editor, playwright, activist and public...
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Eliot Weinberger
Eliot Weinberger’s most recent book is the essay collection Oranges & Peanuts...
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Elisa Albert
Elisa Albert is the author of the novels After Birth and The...
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Elisabeth Rynell
Elisabeth Rynell, born in Stockholm, is a poet and a novelist. Her...
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Elisabeth Sifton
Elisabeth Sifton (1939-2019) was an editor and book publisher. She was the...
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Elise Partridge
Elise Partridge (1958–2015) was born in Philadelphia and grew up nearby. After...
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Elizabeth C. Spykman
Elizabeth Choate Spykman (1896-1965) was born and raised in Southborough, Massachusetts, and...
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Elizabeth Chandler
Elizabeth Chandler is a co-translator, with her husband, of Pushkin’s The Captain’s...
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Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was brought up in an outwardly idyllic seventeenth-century Sussex...
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Elizabeth Deshays
Elizabeth Deshays is a teacher and translator and lives in Provence. She...
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Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew is a regular contributor to The New York Review. Her...
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Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the...
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Elizabeth Hardwick Collection
Hardwick was undoubtedly one of America's most influential and talented writers. Her...
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Elizabeth Harris
Elizabeth Harris translates contemporary Italian fiction, including novels and story collections by...
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Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s most recent books are The Hidden Life of Dogs, The Social...
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Elizabeth Mayer
Elizabeth Mayer (1884-1970) was a German-born American translator and editor. In the...
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Elizabeth McKenzie
Elizabeth McKenzie’s novel The Portable Veblen was longlisted for the 2016 National...
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Elizabeth Rokkan
Elizabeth Rokkan was a professor of English at the University of Bergen,...
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Elizabeth Sewell
Elizabeth Sewell (1919–2001) was an author and academic best known for her...
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Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1912–1975) was an English short-story writer and novelist. She held...
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Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was born Mary Annette Beauchamp to a prosperous...
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Elizabeth Wayland Barber received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. Her...
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Elizabeth Willis
Elizabeth Willis is the author of Address (2011), which received the PEN...
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Ellen Blance
Ellen Blance grew up in the northeast of England. She moved to...
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Ellen Elias-Bursac
Ellen Elias-Bursac translates fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation...
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Elliot Ross
Elliot Ross has been a photographic artist for over fifty years. He is...
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Elliott Chaze
Elliott Chaze (1915–1990) was born in Mamou, Louisiana, and attended Washington and...
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Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante (1912–1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, and translator. She was born...
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Else Silke
Else Silke won the 2009 SATI Prize for Outstanding Translation for her...
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Elsewhere Editions
Elsewhere Editions is devoted to translating imaginative works of children’s literature from...
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Emily Flake
Emily Flake is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her work has appeared in...
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Emily Gould
Emily Gould is the author of the essay collection And the Heart...
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Emily Prager
Emily Prager is a novelist, a Literary Lion of the New York...
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Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir,The Still...
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Emma Ramadan
Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, RI, where she co-owns...
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Emma Rothschild
Emma Rothschild is an economic historian who currently serves as the Jeremy...
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Emmanuel Bove
Emmanuel Bove (1898–1945) was a French journalist and novelist. He had been...
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Emmanuel Hocquard
Emmanuel Hocquard (1940—2019) was born and raised in Tangier. He is the author...
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Emmanuel Iduma
Emmanuel Iduma is the author of A Stranger’s Pose, a travelogue, and...
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Emmelie Prophète
Emmelie Prophète (b. 1971, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is the author of two poetry collections...
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Emmett Grogan
Emmett Grogan (c.1943-1978) was born Eugene Grogan in Brooklyn, New York. Called...
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English Classics
Spend a Sunday afternoon revisiting these timeless and beloved classics. Buy all...
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Enrico Pea
Novelist, poet, and playwright Enrico Pea (1881–1958) spent his youth traveling. He...
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Eric Chevillard
Eric Chevillard is one of the most inventive authors writing in French...
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Eric Gudas
Eric Gudas is the author of Best Western and Other Poems. His work has...
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Eric Karpeles
Eric Karpeles is a painter, writer, and translator. His comprehensive guide, Paintings...
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Eric Linklater
Eric Linklater (1899-1974) wrote scores of novels for adults and children. He...
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Eric Mace-Tessler
Eric Mace-Tessler is a translator and educator. Born in Brooklyn, he has...
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Eric Schlosser
Eric Schlosser is the author of the books Fast Food Nation, Reefer...
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Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) was born in Berlin, educated at the Universities of...
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Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was born in Dresden and after serving in World...
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Erik Blegvad
Erik Blegvad was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1923. He has illustrated...
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Ernie Bushmiller
Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982) was an American cartoonist best known for creating the daily...
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Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) was born in Heidelberg and early on developed a...
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Ernst Weiss
Ernst Weiss, born in 1882 in Brünn, Moravia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire,...
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Essay Collections Sale
For the next three days, choose any three of the essay collections...
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Estelle Gilson
Estelle Gilson is a writer, translator, and poet. Among her translations are...
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Esther Allen
Esther Allen received the 2017 National Translation Award for her translation of...
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Esther Averill
Esther Averill (1902-1992) began her career as a storyteller drawing cartoons for...
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Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky is the author of books of poetry as well as novels,...
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Eugene Ostashevsky
Eugene Ostashevsky is a poet and translator. He was born in Leningrad,...
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Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was born in Genoa. In his teens, he studied...
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Europe and the Great War
One hundred years ago this April, the United States formally entered the...
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Europe before the Great War
These four books offer nuanced perspectives of Europe on the eve of...
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Evan S. Connell
Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books, including Deus Lo...
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Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz (1943–2021) was the author of several books of fiction, including...
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Everett Aison
Everett Aison is a co-founder of the School of Visual Arts Film...
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound’s work as a translator stretched from Confucius and Li Po...
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Fairies, Sprites, and Witches (Ages 5–9)
These books include tales of the search for a robber aided by a...
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Family Matters
Fraught family relations have long been the grounds for literary masterpieces—the insight...
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Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry...
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Farnoosh Fathi
Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium, 2013), the editor...
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Felix K. Nesi
Felix K. Nesi (b. 1988) is an author from Insana in West...
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Felix Salten
Felix Salten began his career as a writer by penning poetry and...
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Ferit Edgü
Ferit Edgü (1936-2024) was a Turkish writer of poems, novels, and essays....
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Fine Gråbøl
Fine Gråbøl (b. 1992) made her debut in 2021 with What Kingdom,...
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Flemming Behrendt
Flemming Behrendt is a Danish journalist and literary critic who has written...
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For Film Fans
Brilliant literary gems inspired these equally celebrated films. Buy all four books...
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was a prolific novelist and critic. Also an influential...
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Frances Frenaye
Frances Frenaye (1908-1996) was an American translator of French and Italian literature....
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Frances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is author or co-author of sixteen books, including Diet...
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Frances Riddle
Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte,...
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Frances W. Pritchett
Frances W. Pritchett has taught South Asian literature at Columbia University since...
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Francesca Wade
Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting (2020) and has written for the London Review of...
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Francine Prose
Francine Prose is a Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bard College. She is...
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Francis Steegmuller
Francis Steegmuller was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1906, and educated...
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Francis Wyndham
Francis Wyndham was born in London in 1924. He graduated from Eton...
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Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman is the author of four novels, The Long Night of...
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Franco Lucentini
Carlo Fruttero (1926–2012) and Franco Lucentini (1920–2002) were decades-long literary collaborators. Together they edited anthologies...
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a children’s novelist who won the Carnegie Medal for his...
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Frank Rich
Frank Rich is a writer-at-large for New York magazine. His books include...
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Frank Santoro
Frank Santoro’s work has been exhibited at the American Academy of Arts...
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Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin (1913-1972) was born in New Jersey and raised in Queens,...
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Frank Wynne
Frank Wynne is literary translator from the French and Spanish whose authors...
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Frankétienne
Considered by many to be the ‘father of Haitian letters,’ Frankétienne is...
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Frans G. Bengtsson
Frans G. Bengtsson (1894-1954) was born and raised in the southern Swedish...
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Franz Brandenberg
Franz Brandenberg (1932 - 2022) was the author of many picture books...
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Franz Josef Tripp
Franz Josef Tripp (1915–1978) illustrated, among many other books, Jim Button and...
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François Cheng
François Cheng is a poet, essayist, novelist, calligrapher, and art historian who...
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François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) was born in Saint-Malo, on the northern coast of Brittany,...
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Françoise Gilot
Françoise Gilot (1921-2023) was a a French painter, critic, and writer. In...
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Frederic Prokosch
Frederic Prokosch (1908–1989) was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of an...
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Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael is a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, translator, and critic. His screenwriting...
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Frederick C. Crews
Frederick C. Crews is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of...
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Frederika Randall
Frederika Randall (1948–2020) was a writer, reporter, and translator. Among her translations...
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Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020) spent most of his life as a professor of...
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Freya von Moltke
Freya von Moltke (1911–2010) was part of the anti-Nazi opposition group the...
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was born in Röcken bei Lützen, a farming town...
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Friedrich Reck
Friedrich Reck (1884–1945) was born Friedrich Percyval Reck in Masuria, East Prussia,...
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Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) was born in Budapest to a poor but cultivated...
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Fritz Eichenberg
Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990) was born and raised in Germany, where he became...
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Fritz Stern
Fritz Stern (1926-2016) was University Professor Emeritus and the former provost of...
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Frédéric Pajak
Frédéric Pajak (b. 1955) is a Swiss-French writer and graphic artist born...
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Fulvio Testa
Fulvio Testa is one of Italy’s most distinguished artists and illustrators and...
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Fumiko Takano
Fumiko Takano is a Japanese manga artist. Influential among the “New Wave”...
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Félix Fénéon
Félix Fénéon (1861–1944) was born in Turin (his father was a traveling...
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G.B. Edwards
Gerald Basil Edwards (1899-1976) was born in Vale Parish on the Channel...
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G.V. Desani
Govindas Vishnoodas Desani (1909–2000) was born to Indian parents in Nairobi, Kenya,...
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Gabriel Chevallier
Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969) was the son of a notary clerk and lived...
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Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He began...
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Gabriel Weisz Carrington
Gabriel Weisz Carrington is a poet, playwright, theatre researcher and comparative literature...
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost
Gabriel Winslow-Yost is a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books....
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Gabriele Tergit
Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982) was a novelist and journalist, known initially for her...
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Galen Strawson
Galen Strawson is a writer and professor of philosophy. He has published...
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Garnette Cadogan
Garnette Cadogan is an essayist and journalist who focuses on history, culture,...
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Garry Wills
Garry Wills holds the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life...
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Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg is a novelist and critic who resides in New...
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Garth Williams
Garth Williams (1912–1996) illustrated nearly one hundred books for children, including Stuart...
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Gary Giddins
Gary Giddins was the jazz critic for The Village Voice, where his...
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Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana (1950 - 2024) was a critic,essayist, and novelist. His most...
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Gary Panter
Gary Panter is a highly influential comics artist, painter, illustrator, and designer. He helped shape the visual...
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Geoff Cebula
Geoff Cebula is a translator from Russian to English. He is the...
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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of many books. For NYRB Classics he has...
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Geoffrey Brock
Geoffrey Brock is the author of two collections of poems, the editor...
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Geoffrey Hayes
Geoffrey Hayes (1947–2017) wrote and illustrated over 40 children’s books, including the...
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Geoffrey Household
Geoffrey Household (1900–1988) was born in Bristol, England, and educated at Magdalen...
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Geoffrey Lehmann
Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian translator, lawyer, and children's author. He lives in...
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Geoffrey O’Brien
Geoffrey O'Brien is an American poet, critic, editor, and cultural historian whose...
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Geoffrey Wolff
Geoffrey Wolff is the author of three other works of nonfiction—The Art of...
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Geoffrey Young
Geoffrey Young is a poet and publisher. His press, The Figures, was...
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Georg Büchner
At his death at the age of 24 in 1837, Georg Büchner...
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742 in Oberramstadt, Germany. In 1763...
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George Bradley
George Bradley is the author of six books of verse (most recently,...
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George Dillon
George Dillon (1906–1968), born in Jacksonville, Florida, was raised in Kentucky, Ohio,...
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George Economou
George Economou taught English and comparative literature at Long Island University and...
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George MacDonald Fraser
George MacDonald Fraser, OBE (1925–2008) was an English-born author of Scottish descent,...
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George Mendoza
A poet, screenwriter, travel journalist, novelist, and writer of children’s books, George Mendoza (1934–2018)...
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George Paizis
George Paizis is the author of Marcel Martinet: Poet of the Revolution,...
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George Pelecanos
George Pelecanos is the author of twenty books and was a writer, story...
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George Plimpton
George Plimpton (1927–2003), the originator of “participatory journalism,” was the editor of The Paris...
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George Prochnik
George Prochnik is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson...
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George Psychoundakis
George Psychoundakis (1920–2006) was born and raised in the remote Cretan village...
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George R. Stewart
George R. Stewart (1895–1980) was born in Pennsylvania and educated at Princeton....
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George Scialabba
George Scialabba writes regularly for The Boston Globe, Dissent, and The American...
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George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a poet and translator of Hungarian literature. He is...
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Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was born in Paris and studied for his license...
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Georges Darien
Georges Darien (1862–1921) was a writer and noted anarchist. He directed the...
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Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. He went to work...
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Georgia de Chamberet
Georgia de Chamberet is an editor, translator, and journalist. She is one...
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Geraldine Harcourt
Geraldine Harcourt (1952–2019) was a translator of modern Japanese literature. Born in Auckland,...
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Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker studied Dutch historical linguistics and worked as a subtitler for...
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Germano Zullo
Germano Zullo is a prolific writer and poet who has published numerous...
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Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was born in Berlin, educated at the universities of...
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Gert Hofmann
Gert Hofmann (1931–1993) was a German writer and scholar of German literature....
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Gert Ledig
Gert Ledig (1921–1999) was born in Leipzig and grew up in Vienna....
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Giada Scodellaro
Giada Scodellaro is a writer and photographer born in Naples, Italy, and...
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Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to a middle-class family....
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Gilbert Seldes
Gilbert Seldes (1893–1970), the younger brother of famed foreign correspondent and investigative...
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Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose (1947–1995), who is now recognized as one of the most...
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Girolamo Cardano
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was born in Pavia, Italy. A professor of mathematics...
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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was a Sicilian nobleman, the Duke of...
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) was born in Alexandria to Italian settlers – his...
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Glen Baxter
Glen Baxter(1944 - 2026) was the author of many books, including The...
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Glenway Wescott
Glenway Wescott (1901–1987) was the author of the novels The Grandmothers and...
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Gloria Gervitz
Gloria Gervitz (1943–2022) was a poet and translator born in Mexico City...
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Gowhar Fazili
Gowhar Fazili teaches political science and sociology to undergraduates and postgraduates. His...
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Gowhar Yaquoob
Gowhar Yaquoob writes on Kashmiri literature and arts and has presented her...
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Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953) was a writer, politician, and journalist. He spent most...
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Graphic Novels & Memoirs
An international collections of strange and wonderful works by women who have...
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Great Essayists
Masterful writing capture the spirits of the times in which their authors...
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Great Philosophers
Explore the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of the 19th...
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Gregor von Rezzori
Gregor von Rezzori (1914–1998) was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), Bukovina,...
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Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was born in Yonkers, New York. One of the most...
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Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come:...
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Guido Morselli
Guido Morselli (1912–1973) spent his youth in Milan, where his father was...
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) was born Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky in Rome, the...
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Winner of the 1997 Cervantes Prize and widely considered one of the...
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) was a French novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. Born in...
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Gustavo Roldán
Gustavo Roldán was born in Argentina in 1965. His illustrations are widely...
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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893) was born in Normandy to a middle-class family...
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Guy Trebay
Guy Trebay reports on culture for The New York Times. He was...
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Gwendoline Riley
Gwendoline Riley was born in London. She is the author of seven...
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Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, performer, former MP and Lord Commissioner...
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Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933) was born in Nyíregyháza in northeastern Hungary. His mother...
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Gérard de Nerval
Poet, storyteller, autobiographer, translator, and visionary, Gérard de Nerval (1808–55) explored the...
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Günter Grass
Günter Grass (1927–2015) was born in the Free City of Danzig to...
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H. G. Wells
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells (1866–1946) was born at Bromley in Kent,...
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Hadi Mohammadi
Hadi Mohammadi is a celebrated Iranian children's book writer, researcher, and critic...
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Hal Foster
Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and...
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Haleh Liza Gafori
Haleh Liza Gafori is a NYC-born translator, performance artist, writer, musician, and educator...
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Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) is the undisputed master of modern Icelandic fiction. He...
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Halloween Weekend Sale
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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1907–1975) was a German-born American political scientist and philosopher. She...
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Hanne Ørstavik
Hanne Ørstavik published the novel Cut in 1994 and embarked on a career...
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Hans Herbert Grimm
Hans Herbert Grimm (1896–1950) was born in the town of Markneukirchen and...
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Hans Koning
Hans Koning, born Hans Koningsberger in Amsterdam, came to this country in...
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Harald Gripe
Harald Gripe (1921–1992) was born and raised in Stockholm. Early in his...
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Hari Krishna Kaul
Hari Krishna Kaul (1934–2009) was born in Kashmir and lived there for...
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Hariton Pushwagner
Terje Brofos (1940-2018), better known under his pseudonym Hariton Pushwagner, was born...
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Harkaitz Cano
A prolific writer of novels, short stories, poetry, essays, plays, radio and...
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Harold Acton
Harold Acton (1904–1994) was a prolific English writer, the model for the...
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Harold Berson
Harold Berson (1926–1986) was born in Los Angeles and studied art in...
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Harold Rosenberg
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) was an art historian and critic, remembered as one...
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Harold W. Cruse
Harold Cruse (1916-2005) was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the son of a...
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Harriet Pincus
Harriet Pincus (1938–2001) was born in the Bronx. Her first illustrated book was The...
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Harry Fainlight
Harry Fainlight (1935–1982) was born into a Jewish family in New York...
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Harvey Swados
Harvey Swados (1920–1972) was born in Buffalo, the son of a doctor....
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Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873-1934) is widely considered the greatest Hebrew literary figure of...
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Hebe Uhart
Hebe Uhart, born in 1936, in Moreno, is one of Argentina's finest...
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Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian
Heike Schwarzbauer and Rick Takvorian have collaborated on two translations of books...
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Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), who was born in Vienna, Austria, received the...
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Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) was one of Germany’s foremost post–World War II writers....
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Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (1791–1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the...
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Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811), one of Germany’s most enigmatic and celebrated authors,...
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Helen Dimos
Helen Dimos is the author of the collections No Realtor Was Compensated For This...
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Helen Epstein
Helen Epstein is Visiting Professor of Human Rights and Global Public Health...
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Helen Keller
Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At nineteen months, she suffered...
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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi is the author of eight novels, including White Is for Witching,...
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Helen Weinzweig
Helen Weinzweig (1915–2010) was born Helen Tenenbaum in Radom, Poland, and emigrated...
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Helge Torvund
Helge Torvund was born in Hå, Norway. He is a psychologist, children’s...
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Helmuth Caspar von Moltke
Helmuth Caspar von Moltke is a retired lawyer and the son of...
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Helmuth James von Moltke
In 1935, after turning down an opportunity to become a judge because...
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Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was the fifth and only surviving child born to...
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Henri Cole
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and...
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Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (1899–1984) was born in Namur, Belgium, and educated at a...
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Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) was one of Denmark’s great realist writers, a member...
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Henry Adams
Henry Adams (1838–1918), a lineal descendant of presidents John Adams and John...
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born and lived the greater part of...
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Henry de Montherlant
Henry de Montherlant (1896-1972) was born and raised in Neuilly, outside of...
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Henry Gifford
Henry Gifford (1913–2003) was Winterstoke Professor of English Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at...
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Henry Green
Henry Green (1905–1973) was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke. Born...
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Henry Green's Early Novels
Get to know the first works of a masterful writer. Buy all...
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Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and...
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Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson (1895–1977) was born in Brockley, London. In January 1914 he...
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Herbert Read
Herbert Read (1893–1968) was an art historian, writer, and philosopher. A noted...
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Herman Charles Bosman
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951), a household name in South Africa, was born...
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Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886-1951) was the author of The Sleepwalkers and The Death...
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Hermann Burger
Hermann Burger (1942–1989) was a Swiss author, critic, and professor. Author of...
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Heroines (Ages 8–14)
This collection features a girl searching for her baby brother, the orphaned...
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Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her...
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Hillel Halkin
Hillel Halkin is a critic, writer, and translator of both Hebrew and...
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Hiroaki Sato
Hiroaki Sato is the author of Snow in a Silver Bowl: A...
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Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar was born in 1970 in New York City to Libyan...
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Holly Brubach
Holly Brubach is the author of Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova;...
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Hollywood and the Hamptons
From the heat of the Hamptons to sunny Southern California, these books...
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Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis was born in Michoacán in 1940, of Mexican-Greek antecedents. He...
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Honor Moore
Honor Moore’s collections of poems are Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir. She...
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists,...
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Howard A. Rodman
Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, novelist, and professor at the University...
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Howard Curtis
Howard Curtis lives in Norwich, England. He has translated more than a hundred...
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Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson is the author of eleven novels, among them Kalooki Nights...
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Howard Sturgis
Howard Overing Sturgis (1855-1920) was born in London to a rich and...
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Hugh A. Harter
Hugh A. Harter (1922–2011) received a BA in French and a PhD...
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Hugo Claus
The prose, poetry, and paintings of Hugo Claus (1929-2008) were as influential...
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), the poet, dramatist, essayist, and librettist, was raised...
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Humphrey Davies
Humphrey Davies' (1947–2021) translations include Naguib Mahfouz’s Thebes at War (American University...
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Héctor Abad
Héctor Abad is one of Colombia’s leading writers. Born in 1958, he...
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Iain Topliss
Iain Topliss is the author of The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William...
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Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the author of many books, including The Wages of...
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Ian Hideo Levy
Ian Hideo Levy is an American-born Japanese-language author who became the first...
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Iana Boukova
Iana Boukova is a Bulgarian poet and writer. She is the author of...
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Ibrahim Muhawi
Since the appearance of Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales in 1989,...
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Ida H. Washington
Ida H. Washington taught German literature for many years and, along with...
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Ida Jessen
Ida Jessen is widely considered to be the master of psychological realism...
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Ides of March
Augustus, the National Book Award–winning novel by John Williams, is on sale...
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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Italian writer and poet Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1839–1869) was influenced by the...
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Ilon Wikland
Ilon Wikland was born in Estonia and came as a refugee to...
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Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse was born in Belarus and, together with her family,...
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Imre Goldstein
Imre Goldstein has translated from the Hungarian A Book of Memories, The End...
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Inea Bushnaq
Inea Bushnaq is a Palestinian-American writer and translator born in Jerusalem, educated...
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Ingo Schulze
Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1962, and studied classics...
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Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Ingri Mortenson and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire met at art school in Munich...
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Ingrid D. Rowland
Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University...
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Ingrid Godon
Ingrid Godon is a Flemish children's book illustrator. A born observer, her...
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Intizar Husain
Intizar Husain (1925–2016) was a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, widely considered one...
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Inès Cagnati
Inès Cagnati (1937–2007) was born in Monclar, France, in the Aquitaine region...
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Iona and Peter Opie
Iona (1923-2017) and Peter Opie (1918-1982) began their research together in 1944....
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Irena Grudzińska Gross
Irena Grudzińska Gross’s books include Czesław Miłosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of...
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Irina Mashinksi
Irina Mashinski is the author of nine books of poetry in Russian. ...
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Irina Steinberg
Irina Steinberg was born in Moscow in 1983. She emigrated to England...
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Iris Origo
Iris Origo (1902–1988) was born in Britain to an aristocrat mother and...
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Iris Owens
Iris Owens (née Klein) (1929–2008) was born and raised in New York...
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Isabel Fargo Cole
Isabel Fargo Cole is a writer and a translator of such authors...
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Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree is an award-winning author, travel writer, and manager of the...
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. His works include...
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Italo Svevo
Italo Svevo (1861–1928), whose given name was Ettore Schmitz, was born in...
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Ivailo Petrov
Ivailo Petrov (1923-2005) was one of Bulgaria's most important writers. The recipient...
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was born into a wealthy family of the Russian...
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Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić was born in Pretoria in 1957 and lives in Johannesburg,...
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Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) was born to Catholic Croatian parents in a village...
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Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1892-1969) wrote over fifteen novels about the upper classes of...
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J. D. Frodsham
J. D. Frodsham is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at...
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J. D. McClatchy
J. D. McClatchy is the author of eight collections of poetry, most...
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J. H. Prynne
J. H. Prynne (1936-2026) was born in Kent and studied at Cambridge...
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J. J. Phillips
J. J. Phillips is an American poet, novelist, and civil rights activist. In...
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J. L. Carr
James Lloyd Carr was born in 1912 and attended the village school...
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J. Lewis May
J. Lewis May (b. 1873) was a British critic and translator, best...
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J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee’s novel The Childhood of Jesus was published in March...
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J. P. Martin
J. P. Martin (1879–1966) was born in Yorkshire into a family of...
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J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley (1896-1967) was for many years the literary editor of...
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J.A. Baker
J. A. Baker is also the author of The Hill of Summer....
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J.F. Powers
J. F. Powers (1917-1999) was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and studied at...
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J.G. Farrell
J.G.Farrell (1935–1979) was born with a caul, long considered a sign of...
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J.M.G. Le Clézio
J.M.G. Le Clézio was born in Nice in 1940. He has written...
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Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer (1925–1965) was a poet and linguist born in Los Angeles,...
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Jacob Rogers
Jacob Rogers is a translator of Galician prose and poetry. His work...
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Jacques Abeille
Jacques Abeille (1942–2022) was born in Lyon, France, the child of two parents...
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Jacques Houis
Jacques Houis has translated several works from French, including the first modern translation...
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Jacques Le Gall
Jacques Le Gall is Professor of Literature at the University of Pau...
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Jacques Poulin
Born in Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Jacques Poulin is the author of fourteen novels. Among...
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Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934) was a renowned and, late in his life, bestselling...
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Jakov Lind
Jakov Lind (1927-2007) was born Heinz Jakov Landwirth into an educated Jewish...
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Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John’s, Antigua, and has lived in...
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James Anderson
James Anderson’s literary translations from the Norwegian include Berlin Poplars by Anne B. Ragde, Nutmeg by...
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James Buchan
James Buchan’s latest novel is The Gate of Air.
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James Campbell
James Campbell is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Invisible...
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James Cloyd Bowman
James Cloyd Bowman (1880-1961) was born in Ohio. After completing his graduate...
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James Grauerholz
James Grauerholz is a writer, editor, and the biographer and literary executor...
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James Grieve
James Grieve (1934–2020) was an Australian translator and author. Best known for his...
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James Hogg
James Hogg (1770-1835) was born in the Ettrick Valley in the Scottish...
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James Kirkup
James Kirkup (1918-2009) was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer....
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James Lasdun
James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New...
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James M. McPherson
James McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus...
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James McCourt
James McCourt was born in New York City and attended Manhattan College,...
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James McFarlane
James McFarlane (1920–1999) studied modern languages at Oxford and was the first...
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James Naughton
James Naughton (1950–2014) was a translator of Czech literature and poetry and...
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James O'Connor
James O’Connor is a poet, playwright, and translator. He lived in Cuba...
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James Rebanks
James Rebanks is a farmer based in the Lake District, where his family...
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James Sallis
James Sallis (1944–2026) was the author of many novels, including Others of...
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James Schuyler
James Schuyler (1923–1991) was a preeminent figure in the celebrated New York...
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James Sturm
James Sturm is a cartoonist and the author of The Golem's Mighty...
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James Thurber
James Thurber (1894-1961) was born in Columbus, Ohio. After dropping out of...
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James Vance Marshall
James Vance Marshall is the pseudonym of Donald Payne (b. 1924). Only...
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James Williams
James Williams teaches English and American literature at the University of York.
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James Womack
James Womack is a poet and a translator from Russian and Spanish....
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James Wood
James Wood has been a staff writer and book critic at The...
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James Wright
James Wright (1927–1980) was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio, the son of...
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Jamey Gambrell
Jamey Gambrell is a writer on Russian art and culture. Her translations...
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Jamie Bulloch
Jamie Bulloch is a historian and translator of German literature. His most...
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Jan Kerouac
Janet Michelle (Jan) Kerouac (1952–1996) was born in Albany, New York, several months...
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Jan Morris
Jan Morris (1926-2020) has written some forty books, including the Pax Britannica...
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Jan Terlouw
Jan Terlouw was born in the Netherlands in 1931. He worked as...
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Jane Bugaeva
Jane Bugaeva was born in Russia and emigrated with her family to...
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Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is the author of many novels and works of nonfiction....
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Jane Weizhen Pan
Jane Weizhen Pan has collaborated with Martin Merz on translations of many...
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Jane Werner Watson
Jane Werner Watson (1915–2004) was the original editor of Little Golden Books, and...
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Janet Hobhouse
Janet Hobhouse (1948–1991) was raised in New York City and educated at...
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Janet Louth
Janet Louth has translated several books by Emmanuel Bove, including My Friends,...
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Janet Malcolm
Janet Malcolm (1934-2021) was born in Prague and emigrated to the US...
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Janice Biala
Janice Biala (1903-2000) was a Polish-born American artist. She illustrated several of Ford...
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Janice M. Thresher
Janice M. Thresher won the PEN Renato Poggioli Award in 1983 for...
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Jason Kavett
Jason Kavett received his PhD in German from Yale University. He lives...
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Jason Weiss
Jason Weiss is the author of five books, including Always in Trouble:...
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Jay Graham
Jay Graham is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Their work has...
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Jay Jackson
Jay Jackson (1905–1954) was a prolific artist and cartoonist whose work appeared...
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Jean Améry
Jean Améry (1912–1978) was born Hans Meier in Vienna, Austria. He was a...
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Jean d'Ormesson
Jean D’Ormesson (1925-2017) was born in Paris and attended the École normale...
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Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Vaucluse, France. He is the...
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Jean Genet
Jean Genet (1910–1986) was born in Paris. Abandoned by his mother at...
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Jean Giono
Jean Giono (1895–1970) was born and lived most of his life in...
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Jean Merrill
Jean Merrill (1923–2012) was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up...
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Jean Oda Moy
Jean Oda Moy was born in Washington State and spent her early...
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Jean Pleyers
Jean Pleyers is a Belgian cartoonist who has created a number of comics...
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Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894–1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born...
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Jean Stafford
Jean Stafford (1915–1979) was born in Covina, California, the youngest of four...
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Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier as well as...
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Jean-Patrick Manchette
Jean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and...
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Jean-Paul Clébert
Jean-Paul Clébert (1926–2011) ran away from his Jesuit boarding school at the...
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was a hugely influential French philosopher, novelist, playwright, and...
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Jeanie Shaterian
Jeanie Shaterian was a translator of Serbo-Croatian, French, and Norwegian.
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Jeanine Herman
Jeanine Herman is a translator of French literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and art criticism....
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Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer is the author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority,...
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Jeffrey Sacks
Jeffrey Sacks is a writer, translator, and scholar living in New York...
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Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang’s most recent poetry collection is Vanishing-Line. His translation of Bei...
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Jeffrey Zuckerman
Jeffrey Zuckerman’s recent translations from the French include Ananda Devi’s Eve Out...
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Jen George
Jen George was born in Thousand Oaks, California. The Babysitter at Rest is...
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Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 and...
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Jennifer Feeley
Jennifer Feeley is the translator of Xi Xi’s Mourning a Breast, Not...
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Jennifer Fleetwood
Jennifer Fleetwood is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology, City St George’s University...
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Jennifer Shyue
Jennifer Shyue is a translator from Spanish focusing on contemporary Cuban and...
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Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She is the author of...
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Jenny McPhee
Jenny McPhee is a translator and the author of the novels The...
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Jeremias Gotthelf
Jeremias Gotthelf, the pen name of Albert Bitzius (1797–1854), was a Swiss...
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Jeremy Treglown
Jeremy Treglown is a writer and literary critic known most recently for...
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Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School...
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Jerome P. Seaton
Jerome P. Seaton is professor emeritus of Chinese at the University of...
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Jerry Joyner
Jerry Joyner (1938-2019) was an author and illustrator of children’s books, including...
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Jerry W. Carlson
Jerry W. Carlson is a professor of literature and film at The...
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Jessi Jezewska Stevens is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors. Her...
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Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and...
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Jessica Moore
Jessica Moore is an author and literary translator. Her first book, Everything,...
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the short-story collections Unaccustomed Earth and...
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Ji Xianlin
Ji Xianlin (1911–2009) was born in the impoverished flatlands of Shandong Province,...
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Jill Bennett
Jill Bennett is the illustrator of over fifty children’s books, including Roald...
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Jill Timbers
Jill Timbers is a professional Finnish-English translator. Her translation of Otto and...
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Joachim Kalka
Joachim Kalka is an essayist, literary critic, and translator of authors such...
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Joachim Neugroschel
Joachim Neugroschel (1938–2011) was a translator of French, German, Italian, Russian, and...
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Joan Acocella
Joan Acocella is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is...
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Joan Chase
Joan Chase (1936–2018) was born and raised in Ohio. She graduated from the...
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Joan Didion
Joan Didion is the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and...
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Joan Murray
Joan Murray (1917–1942) was born during an air raid in London. She...
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Joan Sales
Joan Sales (1912 - 1983) was born in Barcelona to a Catalan family....
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János Székely
János Székely (1901–1958) was born in Budapest, Hungary. At the age of...
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Àlvaro Enrigue
Álvaro Enrigue has been a fellow in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de...
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Álvaro Mutis
Álvaro Mutis (1923–2013) was born in Bogotá, Colombia. As a child he...
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Élisabeth Gille
Élisabeth Gille (1937–1996) was born in Paris, the daughter of Michel Epstein,...
