Biography of david slavittone

American poet and author (born 1935)

David Rytman Slavitt (born March 23, 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.

Slavitt has written a number of novels and numerous translations from Greek, Latin, and other languages.

Slavitt wrote a number of popular novels under the pseudonym Henry Sutton, starting in the late 1960s. The Exhibitionist (1967) was a bestseller and sold over four million copies. He has also published popular novels under the names of David Benjamin, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Lazarus.^[1][2][3][4] His first work, a book of poems titled Suits for the Dead, was published in 1961.

He worked as a writer and film critic for Newsweek from 1958 to 1965.^[2][5]

According to Henry S. Taylor, winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, "David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners" of writing, "in both prose and verse; his p