Ruth Feldman

Ruth Feldman (1911 Liverpool, Ohio – January 11, 2003) was an American poet and translator.

Life Her father died when she was young and her mother when she was just 17. She lived with her brother, Milton, who was attending Harvard Law School, while attending Wellesley College.

She lived half the year in her condo overlooking the Charles River; the other half she lived in the Hotel de la Ville, Rome at the top of the Spanish Steps. Her work appeared in AGNI, and New York Review of Books.

Awards 1999 Feldman and John P. Welle Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize John Florio Prize in England Circe-Sabaudia in Italy Italo Calvino Prize in the United States Literary Translator's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Raymond E. Baldwin Award

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Poetry

Translations

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