David R. Slavitt

David R. Slavitt, educated at Andover, Yale, and Columbia, is the author of more than 115 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 (2012, Harvard University Press), Civil Wars (2013, Louisiana State University Press), The Four Other Plays of Sophocles (2013 Johns Hopkins University Press), The Crooning Wind: Three Greenlandic Poets (New American Press 2013) and Walloomsac: A Roman Fleuve (2014, Anaphora Press). His version of The Mahabharata will be published this spring by Northwestern University Press.