Andy Gaus

Andy Gaus (born 1946) is an American translator and author, known for his 1991 work The Unvarnished New Testament. Gaus is also active in musical theater and has written music for several operas, revues, and musicals.

Unvarnished series In 1988 Gaus released The Unvarnished Gospels, which led into the 1991 release of The Unvarnished New Testament, which he made in an attempt to render the New Testament in more simple and straightforward modern speech than other Modern English Bible translations. Lessons In Governing: The Inseparable Relationship Between God, Man and Government (2011, with Peter Lawrence Alexander)

As translator Requiem for a Woman, and Selected Lyric Poems (1981, Rainer Maria Rilke) Max and Moritz and Other Bad-Boy Stories and Tricks (2003, Wilhelm Busch)

Theater Gabriela (1983) I Choose to Live Here in the City (1984, revue) Emma (1986, music)