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