David R. Slavitt

David Rytman Slavitt (born March 23, 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.

Slavitt has written a number of novels and numerous translations from Greek, Latin, and other languages. Slavitt wrote a number of popular novels under the pseudonym Henry Sutton, starting in the late 1960s. The Exhibitionist (1967) was a bestseller and sold over four million copies. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus.[1][2][3][4] His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961. He worked as a writer and film critic for Newsweek from 1958 to 1965.[2][5]

According to Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, "David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners" of writing, "in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can't ask much more of literature, and usually we get far less."[6] Novelist and poet James Dickey wrote, "Slavitt has such an easy, tolerant, believable relationship with the ancient world and its authors that making the change-over from that world to ours is less a leap than an enjoyable stroll. The reader feels a continual sense of gratitude."[7]

Biography

Personal life

Slavitt was born in White Plains, New York on March 23, 1935, the son of lawyer Samuel Saul Slavitt and Adele Beatrice Slavitt, a paralegal.

Slavitt attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his first writing teacher was Dudley Fitts.[8] He received an undergraduate degree from Yale University (where he studied under Cleanth Brooks[8] and Robert Penn Warren and was elected class poet, "Scholar of the House," in 1956[9]), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude), and then a Master's degree in English from Columbia University in 1957.[10]

He was married to Lynn Nita Meyer on August 27, 1956. They had three children: Evan Meyer, Sarah Rebecca, and Joshua Rytman; while raising their young children, the Slavitts lived for some years in Miami, Florida. Slavitt and his first wife were divorced on December 20, 1977.[10]

Slavitt's Florida house was burgled during the summer of 1973. His family were no longer happy to live in Miami; they moved to live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For a short time he lived in Belmont. He then met Janet Lee Abrahm, later to be Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and they were married on April 16, 1978.[10] Abrahm was appointed Chief Resident at Moffitt Hospital of University of California, San Francisco, where they lived for a year. Together, they moved to Philadelphia, where Abrahm had earned a fellowship; they moved to Boston in 2000, when she was hired at Harvard University.

Slavitt's mother was murdered in 1978 by a teen-aged burglar, who was convicted and imprisoned. Slavitt's poetry, which rings many emotional changes, became darker, by his own admission.

Slavitt remains close to his children, and he said proudly in a 2011 interview: "What amazes me is not the 100 books, but the fact that I am 76 and have nine grandchildren."[1]

Politically, he has identified himself as a Republican. He and his first wife are Jewish and raised their children in that faith.[10]

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[11]

Writing career

Before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 1965, Slavitt worked at various jobs in the literary field. These included a stint in the personnel office of Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, New York; teaching English at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (1957–1958); and a variety of jobs at Newsweek in New York. Slavitt began there as a mailroom clerk, was promoted to the positions of book reviewer and film critic, and earned the position of associate editor from 1958 to 1963. He edited the movies pages from 1963 to 1965.

Okla Elliott, a professor and Illinois Distinguished Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, has written of Slavitt that he "served as an associate editor at Newsweek until 1965, teaching himself Greek on his 35-minute commute. In his last two years at Newsweek, he had a reputation as an astute, sometime cranky, but always readable 'flicker picker' and gained some notoriety for his film reviews there."[1]

Slavitt taught as an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1977, and at Temple University, in Philadelphia, as associate professor from 1978 to 1980. Slavitt was a lecturer at Columbia University from 1985 to 1986, at Rutgers University in 1987, and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and other institutions. He has given poetry readings at colleges and universities, at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and at the Library of Congress.[10]

In the 1960s, Slavitt was approached by Bernie Geis & Associates to write a big book, a popular book, which he agreed to if he could use a pseudonym. As Henry Sutton, in 1967 he published The Exhibitionist, which sold more than 4 million copies. He followed this with The Voyeur in 1968 and three more novels as Henry Sutton. In the 1970s, he also used the pen names of Lynn Meyer and Henry Lazarus for novels written for the popular market.[1]

Slavitt has published numerous works in translation, especially classics, from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Spanish and French.[9]

Politics

In 2004, Slavitt unsuccessfully ran as a Republican for a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, losing to longtime incumbent Timothy J. Toomey Jr.[12] His campaign manager was former Cambridge School Committee candidate and Republican City Committee Chairman Fred Baker. He explored the race in his 2006 non-fiction book Blue State Blues: How a Cranky Conservative Launched a Campaign and Found Himself the Liberal Candidate (And Still Lost).[13][14] Jonathan Yardley, reviewing the book, said that Slavitt "was challenged by his son Evan -- a Republican activist" to run, and that Slavitt described himself as "economically conservative and socially moderate."[14]

Bibliography
Title Year Publisher Notes
A Cheater's Dozen: Eleven Poems1952Self-publishedSlavitt wrote and distributed these poems by mimeograph at age 17, at Andover. Held in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Dept. of Houghton Library at Harvard University.[15]
Suits For the Dead1961ScribnerPoetry.[16] (Scribner series: Poets of today, vol. 8)
The Carnivore1965University of North Carolina PressPoetry. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Henry S. Taylor praises one poem, Elegy for Walter Stone, as one of Slavitt's "most ambitious."[6]
Rochelle, or, Virtue Rewarded1966Chapman & HallA novel. Printed in the United States by Delacorte Press in 1967.
The Exhibitionist1967Bernard Geis AssociatesA novel about "a prominent actress and her prominent father,"[2] written under the name Henry Sutton.[17]
King Saul1967The American Place TheatreA play.
The Voyeur1968Bernard Geis AssociatesAn erotic novel, written under the name Henry Sutton. Advertised with a New York Times Square billboard, a first in New York book promotions.[9]
Feel Free1968Delacorte PressNovel.
Day Sailing and Other Poems1969University of North Carolina PressPoetry.
The Cardinal Sins1969The Playwright's UnitA play.
Anagrams1970Hodder & StoughtonNovel.
Vector1970Bernard Geis AssociatesScience fiction novel. Written as by Henry Sutton. Kirkus Reviews called it "an efficient, energetic novel tracking a common concern."[18] Reprinted by Hodder & Stoughton in 1971 (ISBN 0-340-15068-8) and by Coronet Books in 1972 (ISBN 0-340-16071-3).
Eclogues of Virgil1971DoubledayTranslated from the Latin, the Eclogues of Virgil.
A B C D: A Novel1972DoubledayNovel. ISBN 0-385-03634-5.
The Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil1972DoubledayTranslated from the Latin, the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil.
Child's Play1972Louisiana State University PressPoetry. ISBN 0-8071-0238-5.
The Outer Mongolian1973DoubledayAlternate history novel[19] ISBN 0-385-00425-7.
The Liberated1973DoubledayNovel. Written as by Henry Sutton.
The Killing of the King1974Doubleday / W.H. AllenBiographical novel about Farouk of Egypt. ISBN 0-385-07899-4.
Vital Signs: New and Selected Poems1975Doubleday[6]
Paperback Thriller1975AvonA mystery novel, written under the pseudonym Lynn Meyer. Honors: Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel (1976). ISBN 0-380-31336-7.
King of Hearts1976Arbor HouseNovel.[20] ISBN 0-87795-153-5.
That Golden Woman1976Fawcett PublicationsNovel, written as Henry Lazarus. ISBN 0-449-13518-7.
Understanding Social Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology1976McGraw-HillCo-authored with Paul F. Secord and Carl W. Backman, a treatise on social psychology.
Jo Stern1978Harper & RowNovel.[1] ISBN 978-0-06-013994-0.
The Sacrifice: A Novel of the Occult1978Grosset & DunlapNovel, written as Henry Sutton. ISBN 0-448-14719-X. Reprinted by Charter in 1979 (ISBN 0-441-74610-1) and by Sphere Books in 1980 (ISBN 0-7221-8290-2).
Rounding the Horn1978Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
The Idol1979PutnamA novel about Hollywood, written under the pseudonym David Benjamin.[21] [22]
Cold Comfort1980Methuen PublishingNovel.
The Proposal1980Charter BooksAn erotic novel about swinging, written as by Henry Sutton.
Dozens1981Louisiana State University Press[23] ISBN 0-8071-0787-5.
Ringer1982E. P. DuttonNovel[24]
Big Nose1983Louisiana State University Press
Alice at 801984DoubledayNovel[25] ISBN 978-1-937402-23-5. ISBN 0-385-18883-8.
The Elegies to Delia of Albius Tibillus1985Bits PressTranslation of the Latin poetry of Tibullus.
The Agent1986DoubledayNovel co-authored with Bill Adler. [26] ISBN 0-385-23007-9.
The Walls of Thebes1986Louisiana State University PressPoetry. ISBN 978-0-8071-1306-6.
The Tristia of Ovid1986Bellflower PressTranslation[6] ISBN 0-934958-04-1.
The Cock Book, or, The Child's First Book of Pornography1987Bits Press[2]
The Hussar1987Louisiana State University PressNovel.[27] ISBN 0-8071-1364-6.
Physicians Observed1987Doubleday Religious Publishing GroupNon-fiction.[28] ISBN 9780819568069
Salazar Blinks1988AtheneumNovel. ISBN 0-689-12030-3.
Equinox and Other Poems1989Louisiana State University PressPoetry. ISBN 0-8071-1485-5.
Ovid's Poetry of Exile1989Johns Hopkins University PressA collection of epistolary poems translated from the Latin of Ovid.[29]
Lives of the Saints1990AtheneumNovel.[30] ISBN 0-689-12079-6.
Eight Longer Poems1990Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
Short Stories Are Not Real Life1991Louisiana State University PressShort story collection. ISBN 978-0-8071-1665-4.
Virgil1992Yale University PressAnalyses of Virgil's poems[31]
Seneca: The Tragedies, Volume I1992Johns Hopkins University PressTranslated from the Latin plays about classical mythology by Seneca the Younger.
Turkish Delights1993Louisiana State University PressNovel. ISBN 978-0-8071-1813-9.
The Fables of Avianus1993Johns Hopkins University PressTranslations of 42 fables by Avianus.[32] [33] [34] ISBN 0-8018-4684-6.
Crossroads1994Louisiana State University PressPoetry. [35] ISBN 0-8071-1753-6.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid1994Johns Hopkins University PressEnglish verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.[36]
The Cliff1994Louisiana State University PressNovel. ISBN 978-0-8071-1781-1.
Seneca: The Tragedies, Volume II1995Johns Hopkins University PressTranslation of five tragedies by Seneca the Younger. [37]
A Gift: The Life of Da Ponte1996Louisiana State University PressA poetical biography of Lorenzo Da Ponte.[38] ISBN 978-0-8071-2047-7.
Hymns of Prudentius: The Cathemerinon, or, The Daily Round1996Johns Hopkins University PressTranslation of Prudentius' Cathemerinon Liber.
Sixty-One Psalms of David1996Oxford University PressTranslation of the Psalms of David from Hebrew. [8] ISBN 0-19-510711-X.[39]
Epic and Epigram: Two Elizabethan Entertainments1997Louisiana State University PressFree-form translations from the Latin epigrams of Welsh poet John Owen. Includes Duessa's version: a dirge in seven canticles. ISBN 0-8071-2151-7.
Broken Columns: Two Roman Epic Fragments1997University of Pennsylvania PressTranslations of The Achilleid (Achilleis) by Publius Papinius Statius and The Rape of Proserpine (De raptu Proserpinae) by Claudius Claudianus. ISBN 0-8122-3424-3.
Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides1998University of Pennsylvania PressTranslation of the Bacchylides. [40] ISBN 0-8122-3447-2.
PS3569.L31998Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol's A Crown For the King1998Oxford University PressTranslation of Solomon ibn Gabirol's poem.[41] ISBN 0-19-511962-2.
Three Amusements of Ausonius1998University of Pennsylvania PressTranslation of three epigrams by Ausonius. ISBN 0-8122-3472-3. Paperback ISBN 978-0-8122-1953-1.
The Oresteia of Aeschylus1999University of Pennsylvania PressTranslation.
The Poem of Queen Esther by Joao Pinto Delgado1999Oxford University PressTranslation of a Spanish 16th century poem[42] ISBN 0-19-512374-3.
Get Thee to a Nunnery: Two Shakespearean Divertimentos1999Catbird PressNovella.[1]
The Voyage of the Argo: The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus1999Johns Hopkins University PressTranslation
The Book of the Twelve Prophets2000Oxford University PressTranslation of a book from the Hebrew Bible ISBN 0-19-513214-9.
The Latin Odes of Jean Dorat2000OrchisesTranslated from the French of Jean Daurat. ISBN 0-914061-80-1.
Falling From Silence: Poems2001Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
The Book of Lamentations: a Meditation and Translation2001Johns Hopkins University PressPoetry.[43] ISBN 0-8018-6617-0.
Sonnets of Love and Death of Jean de Sponde2001Northwestern University PressTranslation
Propertius In Love: The Elegies2002University of California PressTranslation.
Poems of Manuel Bandeira2002Sheep Meadow PressTranslation.
Aspects of the Novel: A Novel2003CatbirdISBN 0-945774-56-7.
The Phoenix and Other Translations2004New American PressTranslations from Latin, French, and Sanskrit.
The Regrets of Joachim du Bellay2004Northwestern University PressTranslation of sonnets by Joachim du Bellay. [44]
Re Verse: Essays on Poets and Poetry2005Northwestern University Press[45]
Change of Address: Poems, New and Selected2006Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
Blue State Blues: How a Conservative Launched a Campaign and Found Himself The Liberal Candidate (And Still Lost)2006Wesleyan University PressMemoir.
William Henry Harrison and Other Poems2006Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
The Theban plays of Sophocles2007Yale University PressTranslation.
De Rerum Natura = The Nature of Things : a Poetic Translation2008University of California PressTranslation.
The Consolation of Philosophy2008Harvard University PressTranslation from the Latin of Boethius.[46]
The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Poems2009Louisiana State University PressPoetry.
Orlando Furioso: a new verse translation2009Belknap Press, Harvard Univ. PressTranslation of the poem by Ludovico Ariosto.
George Sanders, Zsa Zsa, and Me: Essays on the Movies2009Northwestern University PressMemoir.
The Latin Eclogues2010Johns Hopkins University PressTranslation of the eclogues by Giovanni Boccaccio. ISBN 978-0-8018-9562-3.
La Vita Nuova2010Harvard University PressTranslation of poetry by Dante Alighieri.[47]
Poems From The Greek Anthology2010Sheep Meadow PressTranslations of Greek poems.
Milton's Latin Poems2011Johns Hopkins University PressTranslations of the Latin poems by John Milton.
The Gnat and Other Poems of the Appendix Virgiliana2011University of California PressTranslations of some poems attributed to Virgil. ISBN 0-520-26765-6.
The Duke's Man2011Northwestern University PressHistorical novel.[1] ISBN 978-0-8101-2700-5.
Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid2011Harvard University PressTranslations.
Sonnets and Shorter Poems2012Harvard University PressTranslations from Petrarch.
The Metabolism of Desire: The Poems of Guido Cavalcanti2012Athabasca UniversityTranslated poetry. ISBN 978-1-926836-84-3.
Overture2012Outpost19Novel. ISBN 978-1-937402-22-8
The Crooning Wind: Three Greenlandic Poets2012New American PressTranslations from the Greenland poets Torkilk Mørch, Gerda Hvisterdahl, and Innunquaq Larsen, by Nive Grønkjær and David Slavitt.
The Dhammapada of the Buddha2012
Procne2012Outpost19Translation of the drama by Gregorio Correr (1409–1464)
Bottom of the Barrel: The Herring Poems2012Outpost19Poetry.
L'Heure bleu2013Broadkill River PressISBN 978-0-9837789-1-2.
The Lays of Marie de France2013Athabasca UniversityPoetry.
Civil Wars: Poems2013Louisiana State University PressPoetry. ISBN 978-0-8071-5180-8.
The Other Four Plays of Sophocles: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes2013The Johns Hopkins University PressTranslations of the tragedies Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes.
Odes2014University of Wisconsin PressTranslations from Horace.
Shiksa2014C&R Press
From the Fragrant East by Pietro Bembo2014MiracoloTranslation of Pietro Bembo.
The Jungle Poems of Leconte de Lisle2014New American PressPoetry.[48]
Walloomsac: A Week on the River, a.k.a. Walloomsac: A Roman Fleuve2014Anaphora Literary PressNovel. ISBN 978-1-937536-90-9.

Adaptations
  • Metamorphoses - Director, Mary Zimmerman; Repertory Theatre; St. Louis, Missouri; 2003.[49]
  • Trojan Women - Directors, Heidi Winters Vogel and Tom Martin; Saint Louis University Theatre; St. Louis, Missouri; 2005.[50]
  • Oedipus King - Director, Philip Boehm; Kranzberg Arts Center / Gaslight Theater, St. Louis, Missouri; 2010.[51]
  • Antigone - Director, Philip Boehm; Upstream Theater, St. Louis, Missouri; 2014.[52]

Critical reception

Henry S. Taylor, a winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, wrote in 1992:

It has been twenty-five years since David R. Slavitt invented Henry Sutton and embarked on a series of schlock novels under that pseudonym, but it is still fun to recall people's outrage when they learned that The Exhibitionist was the work of someone who had also written more serious fiction, and even poetry. On one hand, people of Jacqueline Susann's ilk were irritated because someone had done easily and laughingly what they worked hard to do; on the other hand, purveyors of solemn literature were offended at the success of this prostitution of talent. Even Tom Wolfe, who had no reason to feel either envious or superior, took a cheap shot at Slavitt's next serious novel, saying in a review that it was not as good as The Exhibitionist.[6]

Taylor adds:

From the beginning, Slavitt's poetry has been characterized by profound wit, neoclassical attention to form, and generous erudition. Slavitt is also a master of tonal variety; within the same poem he can make shifts of tone that most poets would find too risky. ... Part of his success lies in his ability to deal with formal restrictions that are too much for most poets; though his stanza forms are often intricate, they never prevent, or even impede, the explorations of a mind that takes suggestions as they come, weaving them into the pattern.[6]

R. H. W. Dillard, a noted critic at Hollins University, writes, "David Slavitt is one of the most prodigious writers working today. In book after book after book after book after book, he engages, amuses, delights, shocks, astounds, annoys, rouses, arouses, and generally awakens readers from the torpor that the works of too many (unnamed here) writers have cast them into."

In a lengthy review of Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation, critic Steve Baker writes admiringly that

David R. Slavitt has been playing fast and loose with the literary classics since the early 70s when he brought us free adaptations of the Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil, both of which present the original masterworks as filtered through – to put it in his words – the "radically improvisational" lens of the translator. In fact, Slavitt openly refers to these early works not as translations per se, but rather as "verse essays", in which he riffs playfully on the original texts. As renderings into English of Virgil's Latin, his translations of both the Eclogues and the Georgics represent an act of reading, a lively engagement with the original poems, as he transposes them from the distant and antique to the conversational and everyday. They do more to escort us through a reading of the poems than they do to present us with the original texts to read on our own. Shot through with the translator's commentary, dominated by paraphrase and dressed with satirical discussions of the propositional content of the originals, Slavitt's creations are not translations in any traditional sense. In bringing the uninitiated into uniquely colloquial contact with these timeless classics, they do, however, actually amount to pleasantly entertaining romps with the bucolic Virgil."[53]

The Cliff (1994), Slavitt's novel about an impostor (one John Smith pretending to be another, more revered professor of the same name) at a literary retreat in Italy, received praise from many quarters. Publishers Weekly's reviewer wrote, "Smith's witty and playful narration entertains despite some conveniences in the plot. It is his attempt to retain a sense of basic human dignity, however - his desire to prove that he is not 'an altogether worthless person' - that lies at the heart of the novel and invests it with meaning and resonance."[54] Georgia Jones-Davis, writing for the Los Angeles Times, speculated that "Slavitt is not so much telling a story as using his narrative to spoof everything he's probably come across in his distinguished and, let's face it, long academic career." Although Jones-Davis confusedly thought The Cliff "too self-consciously satirical to pass as a real novel," she found much to praise: "There are some wondrously funny moments. Our brilliant, moody, schlemiel of a narrator, a guy who can't even make his rent, is highly critical of the food served at this historic villa. ... The narrator's sincere attempts to reconcile with his alienated daughter are touching and not at all sentimental. The highlight of the book must be the narrator's scathing letter to the manager about the villa's terrible service and dismissive treatment of its guests."[55] Magill Book Reviews wrote, "Slavitt's fiftieth book offers a satiric look at the cosseted world of creative and scholarly retreats, their beneficiaries, staffs, and administrators, as well as creative and academic life more generally."[56]

Awards and honors

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  51. Brown, Dennis (October 13, 2010). "Throwdown! Sophocles vs. Mamet: May the best playwright win!". Riverfront Times. Retrieved December 14, 2014. Many a mystery has borrowed from Sophocles and employed variations on the theme of a policeman or journalist forced to solve a crime that leads back to himself. But most mysteries leave that extra wrinkle about sleeping with your own mother to the Greeks. And indeed, Sophocles knew what he was doing. He unravels his clues with the meticulousness of a Hitchcock thriller. But there's a second dramatist at work here. The translation by David R. Slavitt is a deft balancing act that retains Sophocles' sense of formality and ritual while telling this fateful story in a conversational, accessible manner. "Let it go, drop it," Jocasta (Amy Loui) implores her husband as his relentless pursuit of the truth hones home. [sic] Slavitt's informal approach repositions the relationship between man and God. Apollo is discussed as casually as if he were a nearby neighbor. ... Even without the aid of an onstage swimming pool, this current meticulous offering from Upstream Theater is a gift to the gods.
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