David R. Slavitt

'''David R. Slavitt is an American poet, translator, novelist, literary critic, and journalist. He has authored more than 70 works of poetry, fiction, and poetry and drama in translation.

Life
Born in White Plains, New York, in 1935, Slavitt attended, and received a B.A. from, Yale University (where he was elected Class Poet in 1956). He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University.

He is on the faculties of Yale University and Bennington University.

Recognition
He has received numerous honors, including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in translation, an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Rockefeller Foundation Artist's Residence.