George Steiner

George Steiner was born on April 23, 1929, in Paris to Jewish parents of Austrian descent. His family immigrated to America in 1940. From an early age, he spoke three languages and later studied at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He taught comparative literature at the Universities of Cambridge, Geneva, and Oxford and contributed as a literary critic to the leading literary magazines and newspapers of our time. His first book was the study "Tolstoy or Dostoevsky" (1958). This was followed by works such as "The Death of Tragedy" (1960), "Language and Silence" (1967), "In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture" (1971), "After Babel" (1975), "On Difficulty" (1978), "Antigones" (1984), "Real Presences" (1989), "Heidegger" (1992), "No Passion Spent" (1996), "Grammars of Creation" (2001), his brief autobiography "Errata" (1998), and the novel "The Deeps of the Sea" (1996). He passed away on February 3, 2020.