Robert g fitzgerald biography

American poet, critic and translator (1910–1985)

For other people named Robert Fitzgerald, see Robert Fitzgerald (disambiguation).

Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, literary critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students".^[1] He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. He also composed several books of his own poetry.

Biography

Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard in 1933 he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune for a year.

Later he worked for several years for Time. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "associate editors" at Time in the play, Love's F scott fitzgerald biography.