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American linguists

31 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Albert GallatinAuthor · BooksAbraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Genevan-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist, and linguist.
Alexander MezhirovAuthor · BooksIllustration — Alexander Mezhirov 1980
Babette DeutschAuthor · BooksBabette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.
Burton RaffelAuthor · BooksBurton Nathan Raffel (April 27, 1928 – September 29, 2015) was an American writer, translator, poet and professor.
Cole SwensenAuthor · BooksCole Swensen (born 1955) is an American poet, translator, editor, copywriter, and professor.
Daniel Garrison BrintonAuthor · BooksDaniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837July 31, 1899) was an American archeologist, ethnologist, and surgeon.
David Dean ShulmanAuthor · BooksDavid Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949) is an Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam,…
Edwin O. ReischauerAuthor · BooksEdwin Oldfather Reischauer (RYSHE-ow-ər; October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Edwin O.
George LakoffAuthor · BooksGeorge Philip Lakoff (born May 24, 1941) is an American cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual…
Helen KellerAuthor · BooksHelen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.
Henry Edward KrehbielAuthor · BooksHenry Edward Krehbiel (10 March 1854 – 20 March 1923) was an American music critic and musicologist who was the chief music critic of The New York Tribune for more than forty years.
Humphrey TonkinAuthor · BooksHumphrey R. Tonkin (born 2 December 1939) is professor of English, and served as the 4th president of the University of Hartford.
Irena KlepfiszAuthor · BooksIrena Klepfisz (born April 17, 1941) is a Jewish lesbian author, academic and activist.
Ivor Thord-GrayAuthor · BooksIvor Thord-Gray (born Thord Ivar Hallström) (April 17, 1878 – August 18, 1964) was a Swedish-born adventurer, sailor, prison guard, soldier, government official, police officer, rubber…
Jeremiah CurtinAuthor · BooksJeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 – 14 December 1906) was an American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator. Curtin had an abiding interest in languages and was conversant with several.
John CiardiAuthor · BooksJohn Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.
John DeFrancisAuthor · BooksJohn DeFrancis (August 31, 1911January 2, 2009) was an American linguist and sinologist.
Katherine Siva SaubelAuthor · BooksKatherine Siva Saubel (Siva; March 7, 1920 – November 1, 2011) was a Native American scholar, educator, tribal leader, author, and activist committed to preserving her Cahuilla history,…
Ken LiuAuthor · Books
Leonard NathanAuthor · BooksLeonard E. Nathan, (November 8 1924 – June 3, 2007) was an American poet, critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley where he retired in 1991.
Nina CassianAuthor · BooksNina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru; 27 November 1924, in Galați – 14 April 2014, in New York City) was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist,…
Richard HowardAuthor · BooksRichard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.
Robert McHenryAuthor · BooksRobert Dale McHenry (born April 30, 1945) is an American editor, encyclopedist, philanthropist and writer. McHenry worked from 1967 for Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.
Ron PadgettAuthor · BooksRon Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School.
Sylvia DayAuthor · BooksSylvia June Day (born March 11, 1973) is a Japanese American writer. She also writes under the pseudonyms S.J. Day and Livia Dare.
T. CarmiAuthor · Books
Thomas SebeokAuthor · BooksThomas Albert Sebeok (pron; November 9, 1920December 21, 2001) was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist.
Vyacheslav IvanovAuthor · BooksVyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist…
Willard FiskeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Willard Fiske
William James SidisAuthor · BooksWilliam James Sidis (April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with mathematical and linguistic skills. He was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author.
Zenobia CamprubíAuthor · BooksZenobia Camprubí Aymar (31 August 1887 – 25 October 1956) was a Spanish-born writer and poet; she was also a noted translator of the works of Rabindranath Tagore.

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