Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell establishes the cosmic, social, and cultural significance of life through the language of daily human experience. The founder and former director of the prestigious NYU Creative Writing Program, Kinnell is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Poetry Society of America, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1986 collection The Past.

Widely regarded as the preeminent Spanish-to-English translator of our time, Edith Grossman has translated works by Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Ariel Dorfman, and since Love in the Time of Cholera, all of the books of Gabriel García Márquez. In the New York Times, Carlos Fuentes hailed her best-selling new translation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote as “a major literary achievement” and Harold Bloom has dubbed her the “Glenn Gould” of translation.