Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honours include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award. Carson’s other verse novels, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998) and The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional...
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