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Augenbraum at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Harold Augenbraum (born March 31, 1953) is an American writer, editor, and translator. He is the former Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and former vice chair of the New York Council for the Humanities. Before taking up his position at the National Book Foundation in November 2004, for fifteen years Augenbraum was Director of The Mercantile Library of New York (now the Center for Fiction), where he established the Center for World Literature, the New York Festival of Mystery, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and the Proust Society of America. He has been awarded eight grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for distinguished service to the mystery field, and coordinated the national celebration of the John Steinbeck Centennial. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[1] In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is co-founder, with Alice Kaplan, of the Yale Translation Initiative at Yale University, where he is Associate Director, and from 2017 to 2019 was Acting Editor of The Yale Review.
Augenbraum has published six books on Latino literature of the United States. He has translated new editions of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, and Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El filibusterismo for Penguin Classics. He also edited the Collected Poems of Marcel Proust.
HaroldAugenbraum (born March 31, 1953) is an American writer, editor, and translator. He is the former Executive Director of the National Book Foundation...
Ruben C. (2005). "Calaveras". In Ilan Stavans, ed. in chief, and HaroldAugenbraum, assoc. ed., Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in...
he was ready to strap up and give death a wrestle." According to HaroldAugenbraum, "in the late 1940s and early 1950s he was one of the best known literary...
from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2018. HaroldAugenbraum (June 18, 2009). "The Collected Stories of William Faulkner". NBA...
2006". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Andrea Lynn (November 2006)...
(With acceptance speech by Faulkner and essays by Neil Baldwin and HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 50- and 60-year anniversary publications.) Rice, Philip...
Eighth Day, which went on to win the National Book Award. According to HaroldAugenbraum in 2009, it "attack[ed] the big questions head on, ... [embedded]...
Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-30. (With essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) "Fiction" Archived 2016-01-03...
Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-31. (With essays by Neil Baldwin and HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 50- and 60-year anniversary publications.) "National...
(subscription or purchase required; title and abstract free of charge) HaroldAugenbraum (July 29, 2009). "Chimera". NBA Fiction Blog. Archived from the original...
1993. His comments generated controversy across the Atlantic, with HaroldAugenbraum, head of the U.S. National Book Foundation offering to send him a...
(An essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog. (from Internet Archive) The Williams essay includes Augenbraum's discussion of...
Ruben C. (2005). "Calaveras". In Ilan Stavans, ed. in chief, and HaroldAugenbraum, assoc. ed., Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in...
1994". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-28. (With essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Annotations to A Frolic...
Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With linked information including essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Andrea Lynn (November 2006)...
(With interview, acceptance speech by Matthiessen, and essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) "2008 National Book Award...
Retrieved 2012-03-11. (With acceptance speech by Updike and essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Olster, 2006 p. xi. Olster...
President Obama, whose sister was named after Angelou, and Bill Clinton. HaroldAugenbraum, from the National Book Foundation, said that Angelou's "legacy is...
March 28, 2012. (With acceptance speech by McCarthy and essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) "APS Member History". search...
Machine. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-29. (With essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Stegner, Wallace (1992)...
essays by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards' 60-year anniversary blog. The essay nominally about Williams and Augustus includes Augenbraum's discussion...
Book Awards – 1977". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-29. (With essay by HaroldAugenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) v t e...
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