Richard Howard

Richard Howard was born in Cleveland in 1929. He is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry and has published more than one hundred fifty translations from the French, including works by Gide, Stendhal, de Beauvoir, Baudelaire, and de Gaulle. Howard received a National Book Award for his translation of Fleurs du mal and a Pulitzer Prize for Untitled Subjects, a collection of poetry.

From the Review

August 14, 1986: Arrests in Poland (letter)

October 11, 1984: The Case of Alexandr Bogoslovski (letter)

May 4, 1978: Bentley's Play Banned (letter)

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

January 7, 1971: School of the Arts (letter)

December 17, 1964: Sartre on the Nobel Prize

March 19, 1964: Problems of Translation (letter)

From New York Review Books

Alien Hearts Maupassant's last completed novel is the story of three lovers bound by bitterness and infatuation. Richard Howard's new English translation of this complex and brooding psychological novel reveals the final, unexpected flowering of the great French realist's art.

The Unknown Masterpiece The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."