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Howard, Richard, 1929-2022

LC control no.n 79066341
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3558.O8826
Personal name headingHoward, Richard, 1929-2022
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Variant(s)Howard, Richard, 1929-
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1929-10-13
Death date2022-03-31
Place of birthCleveland (Ohio)
AffiliationUniversity of Houston
Columbia University
Profession or occupationPoets
Translators
Found inHis Quantities, 1962.
WW in America, 1992/93 (Howard, Richard (Joseph Howard); poet, literary translator, b. Oct. 13, 1929 Cleveland, Ohio)
His Jealousy, 1971: p. 2 (translation ... by Richard Howard)
Academy of American poets WWW site, Mar. 9, 2011 (Richard Howard; author of eleven volumes of poetry, has published more than 150 translations from the French, including works by Gide, Giraudoux, Cocteau, Camus, De Beauvoir, De Gaulle, Breton, Robbe-Grillet, Barthes, Cioran, Claude Simon, Stendhal, and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal)
Gracq, J. Balcony in the forest, 2017: t.p. (translated and with an introduction by Richard Howard) data view (Richard Howard received a National Book Award for his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects, his third volume of poems. For New York Review Books he has translated Guy de Maupassant's Alien Hearts, Honoré de Balzac's Unknown Masterpiece, and Marc Fumaroli's When the World Spoke French)
The New York times website, Apr. 21, 2022 (Richard Howard; born on Oct. 13, 1929, in Cleveland, died Mar. 31, 2022, in Manhattan; Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who made the venerable genre of the dramatic monologue speak in a modern voice, and whose translations brought the work of Roland Barthes, Alain Robbe-Grillet and dozens of other French writers to an Anglophone audience; after teaching English at the University of Houston for 10 years, he became professor of writing at Columbia University in 1997)
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/books/richard-howard-dead.html>
Associated languageeng fre