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Keith Botsford was born in Brussels of an Italian mother and an expatriate
American father, and was educated first in England and after 1939 in the United
States at Yale University and the University of Iowa, with further study in
music, the law, and Japanese. He has subsequently taught Comparative Literature,
History, and Journalism at Bard College, the University of Puerto Rico, the
University of Texas, and Boston University. He has worked extensively in film
and television, has been Deputy Secretary of International PEN, Director of the
Ford Foundation’s National Translation Center, and a correspondent and columnist
for The Sunday Times, The Independent, and La Stampa. His
publications include eleven novels and collections of stories, and six works of
non-fiction, as well as many translations. He has edited nine magazines, three
of them with his lifelong friend, Saul Bellow, and is currently Editor of The
Republic of Letters. His most recent books include Death & the Maiden,
Collaboration, and Fragments I, the first of three autobiographical
memoirs covering his first twenty years. He lives in Cahuita, Costa Rica.
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