Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport (1927-2005) was a translator, poet, critic, illustrator, painter, professor, and American writer. He studied Art at Duke University, where he graduated in Classical and English Literature. He is best known for his modernist style short stories, but his range of works is broad and includes poetry, translation, and criticism. He was an English professor for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky. He received translation awards from the PEN Society and the Academy of American Poets. Davenport published more than 40 books, including collections of short stories, translations from Greek, illustrated works, a novel, and critical studies on literature, culture, and art, among them the essays The Geography of the imagination and The Hunter Gracchus, as well as five collections of poems among which are Flowers and Leaves (1966; 1991) and Thasos and Ohio: Poems and Translations, 1950-1980 (1986). He received a MacArthur Fellowship, an O. Henry Award, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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