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Jonathan Galassi born 1949 in Seattle, Washington,〔(New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University > Biographies and Photos > Jonathan Galassi )〕 is the President and Publisher of ''Farrar, Straus and Giroux'', one of the eight major publishers in New York. He began his publishing career at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, moved to Random House in New York, and finally, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He joined FSG as executive editor in 1985, after being fired from Random House. Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and is now President and Publisher.〔(Profile: ''Harvard Magazine'' > ''Editor Extraordinaire Jonathan Galassi on the Risky Art of Publishing Books'' )〕 Galassi is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. He has translated and published the poetic works of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. His honors as a poet include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship,〔(John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows )〕 and his activities include having been poetry editor for ''The Paris Review'' for ten years, and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets.〔(Poetry Foundation > Poets > Jonathan Galassi Bio )〕 He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including ''Threepenny Review,''〔(''Threepenny Review'' > Issue 80, Winter 2000 > Table of Contents )〕 ''The New Yorker, The Nation'' and the Poetry Foundation website. Galassi graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy where he became interested in poetry, writing and literature, and from Harvard College in 1971. He was a Marshall Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. He realized while attending Christ’s College that he wanted a career in book publishing.〔(Profile: ''Harvard Magazine'' > ''Editor Extraordinaire Jonathan Galassi on the Risky Art of Publishing Books'' )〕 Galassi was born in Seattle (his father worked as an attorney for the Justice Department), but he grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts. He lives in Brooklyn. He was married to Susan Grace, with whom he had two daughters. The couple divorced in late 2011.〔(Profile: ''Harvard Magazine'' > ''Editor Extraordinaire Jonathan Galassi on the Risky Art of Publishing Books'' )〕() ==Published works== Full-Length Poetry Collections * ''Left-Handed: Poems'' (Knopf, 2012) * ''North Street: Poems'' (HarperCollins Publishers, 2000) * ''Morning Run: Poems'' (Paris Review Editions/British American Pub., 1988) Translations * ''Canti'' by Giacomo Leopardi (translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010) * ''Selected Poems of Eugenio Montale'' (translated by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, and David Young; edited with an introduction by David Young; Oberlin College Press, 2004) * ''A Boy Named Giotto by Paolo Guarnieri'' (pictures by Bimba Landmann; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999) * ''Collected poems, 1920-1954: Eugenio Montale'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998) * ''Otherwise: Last and First Poems of Eugenio Montale'' (Vintage Books, 1984) * ''The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale'' (Ecco Press, 1982) Novels * "''Muse''" (Knopf, 2015) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Galassi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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