About the Author

NORMAN R. SHAPIRO, honored as one of the leading
contemporary translators of French, holds the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D.
from Harvard University and, as Fulbright scholar, the Dipl�me de
Langue et Lettres Fran�aises from the Universit� d'Aix-Marseille. He is
Professor of Ro mance Languages and Literatures, Distinguished Pro -
fessor of Literary Translation, and Poet-in-Residence at Wesleyan
University and is currently Theater Adviser at Adams House, Harvard
University. His many published volumes span the centuries, medieval
to modern, and the genres: poetry, novel, and theater. Among them are
Four Farces by Georges Feydeau; The Comedy of Eros: Medieval French
Guides to the Art of Love; Selected Poems from Baudelaire's 'Les Fleurs du
Mal'; One Hundred and One Poems of Paul Verlaine (recipient of the
Modern Language Association's Scagli one Award); Negritude: Black
Poetry from Africa and the Carib bean; and Creole Echoes: The Francophone
Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana.
OLGA K. PASTUCHIV is a children's book author, painter, and
commercial illustrator of everything from murals, parade floats, and
theater backdrops to printed materials such as a postcard for the St.
Nicholas Anapafsas Monastery in Greece. She has illustrated a cook-
book, Culinary Potions by Eve Berman; the award-winning children's
book Riparia's River by Michael J. Caduto (Tilbury House); and several
botany and poetry collections including Cricket Weather by Anthony
Walton (Blackberry Press), Crossing To Aranmor and Find A Place by
Glenn Shea (Vortex Press) in addition to the poster for his reading at
Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. Most recently, she illustrated Fables in a
Modern Key and Fables of Town & Country, Pierre Coran's two collec-
tions translated by Norman R. Shapiro (Black Widow Press), as well
as Shapiro's Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems Through the Ages (University of
Illinois Press).