Robert Graves

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I--an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That --and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for I, Claudius , The Golden Fleece , Reader Over Your Shoulder , The White Goddess , among many others. LYDIA KIESLING is an author and literary critic. From 2016 to...See more

ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I--an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That --and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for I, Claudius , The Golden Fleece , Reader Over Your Shoulder , The White Goddess , among many others. LYDIA KIESLING is an author and literary critic. From 2016 to 2019 she was editor of The Millions , and in 2018 her first novel, The Golden State , was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Praised as a journey in the visceral and material realities of motherhood by Sarah Blackwell in The New Yorker , The Golden State was longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the National Book Foundation named Kiesling one of their 5 Under 35 the same year. See less