The Ninth of Ab

Born in New York City, John Hollander was a poet, critic, editor, scholar, and translator who served as Sterling professor of English at Yale University. He also wrote children’s literature and libretti. Hollander received the Bollingen Prize for poetry as well as fellowships from the MacArthur foundation, the National Foundation for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Hollander’s translations of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern are especially prized.