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Vladimir Nabokov
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor (1899–1977)
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet (1911–1979)
Emma Lazarus
American poet (1849–1887)
Mordecai Kaplan
Lithuanian American rabbi (1881-1983)
Robert Hunter
American lyricist, musician, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet
Florence Kelley
American activist (1859–1932)
Tomislav Sunić
Croatian-American writer, translator and professor
Lawrence Venuti
American translator
Laleh Bakhtiar
Iranian academic (1938-2020)
Peter Balakian
Armenian-American writer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for poetry
Charles Eliot Norton
American art historian (1827-1908)
Ron Padgett
American writer and translator (born 1942)
Barbara Oakley
Translator, writer, engineer and teacher.
Herman Bernstein
American journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, translator, Jewish activist, and diplomat (1876–1935)
Burton Watson
American sinologist, translator, and writer (1925–2017)
Bruce Bawer
far-right American writer
Mary Jo Bang
American poet
Hideo Levy
American writer
Ilan Stavans
Mexican-American author, publisher, TV personality, and teacher (born 1961)
Rasmus Bjørn Anderson
American diplomat, translator, and scholar (1846–1936)
Peter Constantine
British and American translator
A. V. Williams Jackson
American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages (1862–1937)
Lydia T. Black
Ukrainian American anthropologist
Eliot Weinberger
American writer
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
James Loeb
American banker, Hellenist and philanthropist (1867–1933)
Henry Edward Krehbiel
American musicologist (1854–1923)
Augustina Stridsberg
American writer and Soviet spy (1892–1978)
Douglas Robinson
American academic scholar, translator, and fiction writer
Durbin Feeling
Cherokee linguist
Frederik L. Schodt
American translator, interpreter and writer
Annie Finch
American poet
James B. Adams
Attorney, legislator, director of the FBI
Fofó Iosefa Fiti Sunia
American Samoan politician
Edmund Keeley
American writer (1928-2022)
Max Margolis
American linguist, and historian (1866–1932)
Marcia Falk
American poet
David Gasman
American voice actor
Nathan Haskell Dole
American writer and translator (1852–1935)
Moissaye Joseph Olgin
Ukraine-Russian revolutionary, journalist and founder of the Morgen Freiheit
Lyn Coffin
American writer
Haruka Orth
American actress
Alicia Nitecki
American writer and academic
Edward Saxton Payson
American translator and Esperantist (1842–1932)
Isabel Florence Hapgood
American writer and translator (1850–1928)
A. Charles Muller
American translator
Alix Strachey
American-British psychoanalyst
George Cooper
American poet and songwriter (1840–1927)
Samuel Parsons Scott
American lawyer
Menachem Kellner
Israeli academic
Frederick Rolf
actor
Cole Swensen
Poet, translator, editor, professor
George Burnham Ives
American bibliographer, editor, and translator (1856–1930)
Roque Salas Rivera
Puerto Rican poet
Charlotte Mandell
Literary translator from French
Rachel Thorn
Manga artist and anthropologist
Frederick Franklin Schrader
American journalist (1857–1943)
Barak Kushner
Professor of East Asian History at the University of Cambridge
Robert A. Kraft
American academic