The Collected Works of Ruth Whitman: Personas and Personhood

Ruth Whitman (1922-99) was a renowned poet, translator, and performer. She published fourteen volumes of poetry--original works and several translations of Yiddish poetry, including An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry (Wayne State University Press). Whitman won numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including a 1984-85 Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a 1974-75 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Grant. During her career, Whitman taught at many universities, including Harvard, Radcliffe, and MIT. David Houghton is an adjunct professor of English in New England. He coauthored The Chinese of the Mendocino Coast with Dorothy Bear and teaches writing, rhetoric, and literature. He is the son of Ruth Whitman.