David R. Slavitt

DAVID R. SLAVITT, educated at Andover, Yale, and Columbia, is the author of more than a hundred and ten books—novels, poetry, reportage, and translations. He was the movie reviewer for Newsweek in the sixties and was co-editor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama as well as the Penn Complete Greek Drama.  Among his recent publications: The Sonnets and Short Poems of Francesco Petrarch (Harvard University Press, 2012), Civil Wars (Louisiana State University Press, 2013), The Four Other Plays of Sophocles (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), and The Crooning Wind: Three Greenlandic Poets (New American Press, 2013), Shiksa (C&L Press), and “From the Fragrant East” by Pietro Bembo (Letterpress of Austin, TX).