Jonathan Galassi

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| name = Jonathan Galassi

| image = Jonathan Galassi 1-17-2011 New Yorker Grand Ballroom.JPG

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| caption = Jonathan Galassi speaking at the Grand Ballroom of the New Yorker Hotel, 2011

| birth_date = 1949

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington

| alma_mater = Harvard College
Christ's College, Cambridge

| occupation = Chairman and Executive Editor Farrar, Straus and Giroux

| employer = Farrar, Straus and Giroux

| spouse = Susan Grace (divorced)

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Jonathan Galassi (born 1949 in Seattle, Washington)[http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/JonathanGalassi.html New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University > Biographies and Photos > Jonathan Galassi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121031148/http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/JonathanGalassi.html |date=2009-11-21 }} has served as the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is currently the Chairman and Executive Editor.

Early life

Galassi was born in Seattle (his father worked as an attorney for the Justice Department), but he grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he became interested in poetry, writing and literature. He attended Harvard College, where he studied English with instructors including Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, and served as an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and the president of the Harvard Advocate. He graduated in 1971, then became a Marshall Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge. He realized while attending Christ’s College that he wanted a career in book publishing.

Career

Galassi began his publishing career as an editorial intern at Houghton Mifflin in Boston in 1973.{{Cite news|url=http://observer.com/2015/03/jonathan-galassi/|title=Publishing Legend Jonathan Galassi Makes His Debut as a Novelist|last=Bloomgarden-Smoke|first=Kara|date=2015-03-05|work=New York Observer|access-date=2017-04-11|language=en-US}} He moved to Random House in New York, and then in 1986 to Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG), after being fired from Random House. Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and served as the president and publisher at FSG until 2018.[http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/11/books.html Profile: Harvard Magazine > Editor Extraordinaire Jonathan Galassi on the Risky Art of Publishing Books]{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/nyregion/for-jonathan-galassi-unveiling-the-heart-in-poems.html|title=For Jonathan Galassi, Unveiling the Heart in Poems|last=Mcgrath|first=Charles|date=2012-01-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-04-11|issn=0362-4331}} He was succeeded as Publisher by Mitzi Angel in 2018, and Angel was named President in 2021. Galassi is currently the Chairman and Executive Editor.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/books/mitzi-angel-farrar-straus-giroux.html|title=2 FSG Promotes Mitzi Angel to President|website=The New York Times|date=25 October 2021 |access-date=27 October 2021|last1=Harris |first1=Elizabeth A. }}

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,[http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=jonathan+galassi&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2010&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=0&y=0 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005702/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=jonathan+galassi&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2010&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=0&y=0 |date=2011-06-22 }} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2391|title=Jonathan Galassi|date=2017-04-10|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2017-04-11}} He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review,{{Cite web|url=http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/80_w00.html|title=Threepenny: Issue 80, Winter 2000|website=www.threepennyreview.com|access-date=2017-04-11}} The New Yorker, The Nation and the Poetry Foundation website.

He is also a trustee at his alma mater Exeter.

Personal life

Galassi lives in Brooklyn. He was married to Susan Grace, with whom he has two daughters. The couple divorced in late 2011. He is gay.{{Cite web|date=2012-04-03|title=Crossing Over|url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2012/04/02/Jonathan-Galassi-poetry-left-handed-knopf|access-date=2021-09-29|website=www.out.com|language=en}} His brother is Peter Galassi.

Bibliography

=Poetry=

==Collections==

Morning Run: Poems (Lathan, NY: Paris Review Editions/British American Pub., 1988)
North Street: Poems (New York: HarperCollins, 2000)
Left-handed: Poems (New York: Knopf, 2012)

==Translations==

The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale (Ecco Press, 1982)
Otherwise: Last and First Poems of Eugenio Montale (Vintage Books, 1984)
Collected poems, 1920-1954: Eugenio Montale (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998)
A Boy Named Giotto by Paolo Guarnieri (pictures by Bimba Landmann; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)
Selected Poems of Eugenio Montale (translated by Jonathan Galassi, Charles Wright, and David Young; edited with an introduction by David Young; Oberlin College Press, 2004)
Canti by Giacomo Leopardi (translated and annotated by Jonathan Galassi; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010)

== List of poems ==

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Orient epithalamion \|2017 \|{{cite magazine \|author=Galassi, Jonathan \|date=January 2, 2017 \|title=Orient epithalamion \|magazine=The New Yorker \|volume=92 \|issue=43 \|pages=40–41 \|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/orient-epithalamion }} \|

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!|First published

!|Reprinted/collected

Orient epithalamion

|2017

|{{cite magazine |author=Galassi, Jonathan |date=January 2, 2017 |title=Orient epithalamion |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=92 |issue=43 |pages=40–41 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/orient-epithalamion }}

=Novels=

Muse (New York: Knopf, 2015){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/books/review/jonathan-galassis-muse.html|title=Jonathan Galassi's 'Muse'|last=Wagner|first=Erica|date=2015-06-16|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-04-11|issn=0362-4331}}
School Days: a Novel (New York: Other Press, 2022)

Sources

[http://catalog.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Online Catalog > Jonathan Galassi]

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080704142243/http://www.charlierose.com/guests/jonathan-galassi Video Interview: Charlie Rose > February 19, 1999 > A Conversation with Editor Jonathan Galassi]
[http://www.pw.org/content/agents_editors_qampa_jonathan_galassi Interview: Poets & Writers > July 1, 2009 > Agents & Editors: A Q&A with Jonathan Galassi by Jofie Ferrari-Adler]
[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20001002/galassi Poem: The Nation > September 27, 2000 > Bequest by Jonathan Galassi]
[http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/04/20/090420po_poem_galassi Poem: The New Yorker > April 20, 2009 > Lunch Poem for F.S. by Jonathan Galassi]
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=176262 Poems: The Poetry Foundation > Girlhood, Flow, May, Montale's Grave, North of Childhood, Saving Minutes, Thread and Turning Forty by Jonathan Galassi]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604020451/http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/Cynthia/articles/Serious_Years.html Review: A Review by Cynthia Haven of North Street by Jonathan Galassi]
Jonathan Galassi Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.