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Stephen Mitchell

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Stephen Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. He is widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and to create versions that are definitive for our time. His many books include The Gospel According to Jesus, The Second Book of the Tao, two books of fiction, and a book of poetry.

Mitchell’s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations [the twentieth] century has produced.” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “instantly makes every other rendering obsolete.” His Book of Job has been called “magnificent.” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh—which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point—have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers. Gilgamesh was Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, was selected as the Book Sense 2004 Highlight for Poetry, was a finalist for the first annual Quill Award in poetry. His translation of the Iliad was chosen as one of the New Yorker’s favorite books of 2011. He is a two-time winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

His books for young readers include The Wishing Bone, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award as the best book of poetry for children published in the United States in 2003, and Jesus: What He Really Said and Did, which was chosen by the American Library Association’s Booklist as one of the top ten religious books for children in 2002.

He is also coauthor of two of his wife Byron Katie’s bestselling books: Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy. www.thework.com

You can read extensive excerpts from all his books on his website, www.stephenmitchellbooks.com.

Stephen Mitchell

4.2/5 ( ratings)
Website
Go to Website
Stephen Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. He is widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, to step in where many have tried before and to create versions that are definitive for our time. His many books include The Gospel According to Jesus, The Second Book of the Tao, two books of fiction, and a book of poetry.

Mitchell’s Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke has been called “the most beautiful group of poetic translations [the twentieth] century has produced.” William Arrowsmith said that his Sonnets to Orpheus “instantly makes every other rendering obsolete.” His Book of Job has been called “magnificent.” His bestselling Tao Te Ching, Bhagavad Gita, and Gilgamesh—which are not translations from the original text, but rather poetic interpretations that use existing translations into Western languages as their starting point—have also been highly praised by critics, scholars, and common readers. Gilgamesh was Editor’s Choice of The New York Times Book Review, was selected as the Book Sense 2004 Highlight for Poetry, was a finalist for the first annual Quill Award in poetry. His translation of the Iliad was chosen as one of the New Yorker’s favorite books of 2011. He is a two-time winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.

His books for young readers include The Wishing Bone, winner of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award as the best book of poetry for children published in the United States in 2003, and Jesus: What He Really Said and Did, which was chosen by the American Library Association’s Booklist as one of the top ten religious books for children in 2002.

He is also coauthor of two of his wife Byron Katie’s bestselling books: Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy. www.thework.com

You can read extensive excerpts from all his books on his website, www.stephenmitchellbooks.com.

Books from Stephen Mitchell

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Letters to a Young Poet

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Enlightened Heart

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai

4.4/5 ( ratings)

A Mind At Home With Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around

4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Gospel According to Jesus

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Second Book of the Tao

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

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Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie

4.2/5 ( ratings)
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