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20th-century American translators

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Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-American writer (1904–1991)
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet (1911–1979)
Julien Green
American author (1900–1998)
Paul Bowles
American composer and writer (1910–1999)
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
acting First Lady of the United States (1914-1915)
Alexander Gode
German-American linguist and translator (1906-1970)
Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Robert Bly
American poet, author, and activist (1926–2021)
Louis Adamic
Slovene-American author and translator (1899-1951)
Joel Chandler Harris
American journalist, children's writer (1848–1908)
Stanley Kunitz
American poet (1905-2006)
Eugene Nida
linguist (1914–2011)
Samuel Noah Kramer
American Assyriologist (1897-1990)
Lilla Cabot Perry
American artist (1848-1933)
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
Cathy Berberian
American mezzo-soprano and composer
Jim Elliot
Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
Chaim Potok
American rabbi and author (1929–2002)
William Cameron Townsend
American missionary (1896-1982)
Bruce Manning Metzger
American biblical scholar (1914-2007)
Vernon A. Walters
United States general (1917–2002)
Fredy Perlman
Czech-born American author and activist (1934–1985)
Jay Benedict
American actor (1951-2020)
Muriel Rukeyser
poet and political activist (1913–1980)
Janwillem van de Wetering
Dutch writer (1931–2008)
Avital Ronell
American philosopher
Rosalind E. Krauss
American art historian
Galway Kinnell
American poet (1927–2014)
Jacob Neusner
American scholar of Judaism and Rabbinic literature (1932–2016)
Edward Seidensticker
American Japanologist (1921–2007)
Marilyn Hacker
American writer (born 1942)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American author and social activist (1879–1958)
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)
Kenneth Lee Pike
American linguist (1912–2000)
James Purdy
writer (1914–2009)
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Hindu leader from the United States
John Ciardi
American poet, professor, translator (1916–1986)
Eugene H. Peterson
American translator
Charles Bernstein
American writer
Harry Mathews
American author (1930 – 2017)
Robert Hass
American poet
Lisel Mueller
German-American poet and translator (1924-2020)
Edith Grossman
American translator (1936–2023)
Nuh Ha Mim Keller
American scholar and translator
Patricia Nell Warren
American writer (1936-2019)
Richard Howard
American poet and literary critic (1929–2022)
W. D. Snodgrass
American poet (1926–2009)
A. E. Stallings
American poet, translator, and essayist (born 1968)
Florence Hedges
American botanist (1878-1956)
Yuri Slezkine
American writer
Stanley Rother
American priest, Martyr and Blessed (1935–1981)
Homer H. Dubs
American sinologist (1892-1969)
Ludwig Lewisohn
German novelist, critic, translator (1882-1955)
Tymoteusz Karpowicz
Polish poet