Babette Deutsch



Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.

Life
Born in New York City, the daughter of Michael and Melanie (Fisher) Deutsch, she matriculated from the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College, graduating with a B.A. in 1917. She published poems in magazines such as the North American Review and the New Republic while she was still a student at Barnard.

On April 29, 1921, Deutsch married Avrahm Yarmolinsky, chief of the Slavonic Division of The New York Public Library (1918–1955), also a writer and translator. They had two sons, Adam Yarmolinsky and Michael.

She translated Pushkin's Eugene Onegin into English and also made some of the best English versions of Boris Pasternak's poems.

Recognition
In 1946, she received an honorary D. Litt. from Columbia University.

Poetry

 * Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1954)
 * Coming of Age (1959)
 * Collected Poems, 1919-1962 (1963)

Non-fiction

 * Mask of Silenus (1933)
 * Poetry in Our Time (1954)
 * Poetry Handbook (1957)

Translated

 * Modern Russian Poetry - an Anthology - Chosen and translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)