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. His recent publications include his version of The Mahabharata (Northwestern University Press), The Sonnets and Civil Wars (Louisiana State University Press), and The Four Other Plays of Sophocles (Johns Hopkins University Press).