Jonathan Galassi
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Jonathan Galassi (born 1949[1]) has served as the president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is currently its chairman and executive editor.
Early life
Galassi was born in Seattle (where his father worked as an attorney for the Justice Department) in 1949 but grew up in Plympton, Massachusetts.[2] He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he became interested in poetry, writing and literature.[3] He attended Harvard College, where he studied English under, among others, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, and served as an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and the president of the Harvard Advocate.[2] 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.[2]
Career
Galassi began his publishing career as an editorial intern at Houghton Mifflin in Boston in 1973.[4] He moved to Random House in New York, and then in 1986 to Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG), after being fired from Random House.[4] Two years later, he was named editor-in-chief, and served as the president and publisher at FSG until 2018.[2][3] 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.[5]
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.[3] His honors as a poet include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship,[6] 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.[7] He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including Threepenny Review,[8] The New Yorker, The Nation and the Poetry Foundation website.
He is also a trustee at his alma mater Exeter.[3]
Personal life
Galassi lives in Brooklyn. He was married to Susan Grace, with whom he has two daughters.[3] The couple divorced in late 2011.[2] He is gay.[9] His brother is Peter Galassi.[3]
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)
- The Vineyard: A Poem (New York, Knopf, 2026)
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
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orient epithalamion | 2017 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Galassi, Jonathan (January 2, 2017). "Orient epithalamion". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 43. pp. 40–41. | The Vineyard: A Poem (New York, Knopf, 2026) |
Novels
- Muse (New York: Knopf, 2015)[10]
- School Days: a Novel (New York: Other Press, 2022)
Sources
References
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- ^ New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University > Biographies and Photos > Jonathan Galassi Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ a b c d e Profile: Harvard Magazine > Editor Extraordinaire Jonathan Galassi on the Risky Art of Publishing Books
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mcgrath, Charles (2012-01-27). "For Jonathan Galassi, Unveiling the Heart in Poems". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (2015-03-05). "Publishing Legend Jonathan Galassi Makes His Debut as a Novelist". New York Observer. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harris, Elizabeth A. (25 October 2021). "2 FSG Promotes Mitzi Angel to President". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jonathan Galassi". Poetry Foundation. 2017-04-10. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Threepenny: Issue 80, Winter 2000". www.threepennyreview.com. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Crossing Over". www.out.com. 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wagner, Erica (2015-06-16). "Jonathan Galassi's 'Muse'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-04-11.
External links
- Video Interview: Charlie Rose > February 19, 1999 > A Conversation with Editor Jonathan Galassi
- Interview: Poets & Writers > July 1, 2009 > Agents & Editors: A Q&A with Jonathan Galassi by Jofie Ferrari-Adler
- Poem: The Nation > September 27, 2000 > Bequest by Jonathan Galassi
- Poem: The New Yorker > April 20, 2009 > Lunch Poem for F.S. by Jonathan Galassi
- Poems: The Poetry Foundation > Girlhood, Flow, May, Montale's Grave, North of Childhood, Saving Minutes, Thread and Turning Forty by Jonathan Galassi
- 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.
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