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Jonathan Galassi born 1949 in Seattle, Washington, is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the eight major publishers in New York. He began his publishing career at Houghton Mifflin in Boston, moved to Random House in New York, and finally, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He joined FSG as executive editor in 1985, after being fired from Random House. Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and is now President and Publisher.

Galassi is also a translator of poetry and a poet himself. He has translated and published the poetic works of the Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. His honors as a poet include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship, and his activities include having been poetry editor for The Paris Review for ten years, and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets. He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, The Nation and the Poetry Foundation website.

Galassi graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy where he became interested in poetry, writing and literature, and from Harvard College in 1971. He was a Marshall Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. He realized while attending Christ’s College that he wanted a career in book publishing. Galassi was born in Seattle , but he grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Jonathan Galassi

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Books from Jonathan Galassi

Collected Poems, 1920-1954

Left-Handed: Poems

The FSG Poetry Anthology

Spring 2015 Debut Fiction Sampler

Left-handed: poems

North Street And Other Poems

Knowing Knott: Essays on an American Poet

Montale: Poems

Muse

Contagion of Matter

School Days

The Survivor

Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound: Collected Writings

A Boy Named Giotto

Pink: Poems

Canti

Die Muse: Roman