Michael Scammell
Encyclopedia
Michael Scammell is an English author
, biographer and translator of Slavic
literature
.
, and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University
where he is currently a professor
of writing.
His work appears in the New York Review of Books, AGNI, and Harper's.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
, biographer and translator of Slavic
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
.
Life
He was educated at the University of NottinghamUniversity of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
, and obtained a doctorate at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
where he is currently a professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of writing.
His work appears in the New York Review of Books, AGNI, and Harper's.
Translations
(Vintage Books, 1991 ISBN 9780679727255)- Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and PunishmentCrime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his...
Biographies
- KoestlerArthur KoestlerArthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic (New York: Random House, December 2009)
External links
- Faculty home-page
- Washington Times review of Koestler - December 20, 2009