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George Steiner

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Born: April 22 1929

Died: 0202 02 20202020

See also: George A. Steiner, author on Management and Planning.

Dr. Francis George Steiner was an essayist, novelist, philosopher, literary critic, and educator. He wrote for
The New Yorker
for over thirty years, contributing over two hundred reviews. Among his many awards, he received The Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award from Stanford University 1998. He lived in Cambridge, England, with his wife, historian Zara Shakow Steiner.

In 1950 he earned an M.A. from Harvard University, where he won the Bell Prize in American Literature, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1955. He was then a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, for two years. He became a founding fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in 1961, and has been an Extraordinary Fellow there since 1969. Additionally, Steiner accepted the post of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva in 1974, which he held for 20 years, teaching in four languages. He became Professor Emeritus at Geneva University on his retirement in 1994, and an Honorary Fellow at Balliol College at Oxford University in 1995. He later held the positions of the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature and Fellow of St. Anne's College at Oxford University from 1994 to 1995, and Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University from 2001 to 2002.

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George Steiner

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Books from George Steiner

On the Marble Cliffs

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

Real Presences

The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H.

Martin Heidegger

Nostalgia for the Absolute

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism

Errata: An Examined Life

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal

Diez (posibles) razones para la tristeza del pensamiento

Un largo sábado: Conversaciones con Laure Adler

At the New Yorker

Une certaine idée de l'Europe

The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

Lessons of the Masters

Antigones

No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995