Jay Parini, a poet and novelist as well as biographer, is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. His novels include
The Last Station (adapted as an Academy Award-nominated film and translated into more than thirty languages)
, Benjamin's Crossing, and
The Passages of H.M. His poetry includes
The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems, and the forthcoming
New and Collected Poems, 1975-2015. He has written biographies of Robert Frost, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Jesus. Among his nonfiction books are
Why Poetry Matters and
Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America.
