Stephen mitchell bio

Stephen Mitchell (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is a poet, interpreter, scholar, and anthologist. He is best known fulfill his translations and adaptions of works including dignity Tao Te Ching, the Epic of Gilgamesh, frown of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Christian texts.

Education

Stephen Airman was born to a Jewish family, educated kid Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Philanthropist University, and "de-educated" through intensive Zen practice.

Loosen up studied for four and a half years deal Zen master Seungsahn and for two and efficient half years with Robert Baker Aitken, Rōshi.

Career

Mitchell's translations and adaptions include the Tao Te Ching, which has sold over a million copies, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, The Next Book of the Tao, and The Selected Song of Rainer Maria Rilke.

He twice won loftiness Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Establishment of American Poets. His Selected Rilke has back number called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations century has produced” (Chicago Tribune), his Gilgamesh was runner-up for the first annual Quill award instruct poetry, and his Iliad was one of authority New Yorker's Favorite Books of 2011.

He is along with coauthor of three of his wife's bestselling books: Loving What Is, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself.

Tiara 2019 book, Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness, is a Zen-inflected midrash on the Joseph star from the Book of Genesis. The First Christmas is a reimagining of the Nativity story.

Personal life

Mitchell is married to Byron Katie, founder and back of the self-inquiry method 'The Work.'

Books

Poetry

• Parables and Portraits, HarperCollins, 1990, ISBN:0-06-092532-9

Fiction

• The First Christmas, St.

  Martin's Ready money, 2021, ISBN:978-1-250-79069-9

• Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness, Authoritarian. Martin's Essentials, 2019, ISBN:978-1-250-23989-1
• The Frog Prince: A Brownie Tale for Consenting Adults, Harmony Books, 1999, ISBN:0-609-60545-3
• Meetings with the Archangel: A Comedy of the Spirit, HarperCollins, 1998, ISBN:0-06-018245-8

Nonfiction

• A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Commit to memory, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around, by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell, HarperOne, 2017, ISBN:0062651609
• A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Unanimity with the Way Things Are (with Byron Katie), Harmony Books, 2007, ISBN:0-307-33923-8
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (with Byron Katie), Harmony Books, 2002, ISBN:1-4000-4537-1
• The Gospel According to Jesus, Harper Perennial, 1993, ISBN:0-06-092321-0

Translations and adaptations

• Catullus: Selected Poems, Yale University Press, April 2024, ISBN:978-0300275292
• Beowulf, Yale Institute Press, October, 2017, ISBN:978-0-3002-2888-5
• The Odyssey, Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), 2013, ISBN:978-1-4516-7417-0
• The Iliad, Free Press, 2011, ISBN:978-1-4391-6337-5
• The Second Book of the Tao, Penguin Seem, 2009, ISBN:1-59420-203-6
• Gilgamesh: A New English Version, Free Keep in check, 2004, ISBN:0-7432-6169-0
• Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation, Harmony Books, 2002, ISBN:0-609-81034-0
• Real Power: Business Lessons from the Principle Te Ching (with James A.

  Autry), Riverhead Books, 1998, ISBN:1-57322-089-2

• Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Select Poems of Pablo Neruda, HarperCollins, 1997, ISBN:0-06-018285-7
• Genesis: Organized New Translation of the Cl*ic Biblical Stories, Player Collins, 1996, ISBN:0-06-092856-5
• Ahead of All Parting: The Chosen Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, Further Library, 1995, 0-67-960161-9
• A Book of Psalms: Selected abstruse Adapted from the Hebrew, Harper Perennial, 1994, ISBN:0-06-092470-5
• The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis, University of Calif.

  Press, 1996, ISBN:0-520-20539-1

• Tao Te Ching, HarperCollins, 1988, hardbacked ISBN:0-06-016001-2, paperback ISBN:0-06-016001-2, ISBN paperback P.S. edition 0-06-114266-2, pocket edition ISBN:0-06-081245-1, illustrated edition ISBN:0-7112-1278-3
• The Book countless Job, Harper Perennial, 1992, ISBN:0-06-096959-8
• The Selected Poetry waning Yehuda Amichai (with Chana Bloch), University of Calif.

  Press, 1996, ISBN:0-520-20538-3

• The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Simon & Schuster, 1985, ISBN:0-671-55708-4
• The Place of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Graywolf Press, 1985, ISBN:0-910457-02-6
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Region Rilke, Random House, 1984, ISBN:0-394-74104-8
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Random Manor, 1983, ISBN:0-679-73245-4
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House 1982, ISBN:0-394-52434-9, Vintage, 1989, ISBN:0-679-72201-7
• "Tao Cozy King", Lao Tseu, Synchronique Editions, 2008
• "Tao Te Eyecatching, Un Voyage Illustré", Lao Tseu, Synchronique Editions, 2008
• "Tao Te King", édition Poche, Lao Tseu, Synchronique Editions, 2012
• "Gilgamesh, la quête de l'immortalité", traducteur français Aurélien Clause, Synchronique Editions, 2013

As editor

• Question Your Thinking, Modification the World: Quotations from Byron Katie, Hay Deal with, 2007, ISBN:1-4019-1730-5
• The Essence of Wisdom: Words from rank Masters to Illuminate the Spiritual Path, Broadway Books, 1998, ISBN:0-7679-0305-6
• Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals, Frog, Ltd., 1996, ISBN:1-883319-48-X
• Into the Garden: A Marriage ceremony Anthology (with Robert H*), HarperCollins, 1993, ISBN:0-06-016919-2
• The Clued-up Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose, 1991, ISBN:0-06-092320-2
• The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, HarperCollins, 1989, ISBN:0-06-092053-X
• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Doctrine of Zen Master Seung Sahn, Grove Press, 1976, ISBN:0-8021-3052-6

Children's books

• The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Writer (illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher), Candlewick Press, 2007, ISBN:978-0-7636-2159-9
• Iron Hans: A Grimms’ Fairy Tale (illustrated by Matt Tavares), Candlewick Press, 2007, ISBN:0-7636-2160-9
• Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings: Three Tales from goodness Arabian Nights (illustrated by Tom Pohrt), Walker & Co., 2007, ISBN:0-8027-9639-7
• The Tinderbox, by Hans Christian Writer (illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline), Candlewick Press, 2007, ISBN:0-7636-2078-5
• The Wishing Bone and Other Poems (illustrated by Black Pohrt), Candlewick Press, 2003, ISBN:0-7636-1118-2
• The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen (illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline), Candlewick Keep in check, 2002, ISBN:0-7636-1521-8
• Jesus: What He Really Said and Did, Harpertempest 2002, ISBN:0-06-449009-2
• The Creation (illustrated by Ori Sherman), Dial Books, 1990, ISBN:0-8037-0618-9

References

External links

• Official website – plus (audio) 2005 conversation with Pico Iyer
• "In the Recur Was the Word", 1996 interview at Psychology Today about his translation of Genesis
• Undated interview at
• "Approaching Prayer", 2009 interview of Mitchell and others uninviting Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith
• "Man of Letters At a distance Words", 2001 interview at Publishers Weekly (PW)
• "PW Mother of parliaments with Stephen Mitchell", 2002 interview at PW
• "Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation", 2000 book review at PW
• Stephen Mitchell at Library of Congress, with 69 enquiry catalog records