Jonathan W. Galassi
Jonathan W. Galassi (born 1949 Seattle, Washington) is an American editor, and poet.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1971,[1] and Cambridge University, with an M.A. in 1973.
He was an editor at Houghton Mifflin in 1973, senior editor at Random House from 1981 to 1986, and vice-president and executive editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He was named president in 2002. He teaches at City University of New York, Writers' Institute.[2] He was a judge for the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards.[3]
Awards
Works
- North Street: poems, HarperCollins Publishers, 2000, ISBN 978-0-06-019540-3
- Morning Run, Simon & Schuster, 1989, ISBN 978-0-945167-10-5
- "Elms", The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953, Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 978-0-312-42239-4
- "Jonathan Galassi", First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them, Editor Carmela Ciuraru, Simon and Schuster, 2001, ISBN 978-0-684-86439-6
- Otherwise: last and first poems of Eugenio Montale, Eugenio Montale, Translator Jonathan Galassi, Random House, 1984, ISBN 978-0-394-52963-9
- Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition, Giacomo Leopardi, Translator Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, ISBN 978-0-374-23503-1
- Selected poems, Eugenio Montale, Translators Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, David Young, Oberlin College Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-932440-98-3
- Posthumous diary, Eugenio Montale, Translator Jonathan Galassi, Turtle Point Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-885586-22-3