Born in Brooklyn, New York, Stephen Mitchell studied at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He is known for his English versions of canonical texts, including the Tao Te Ching (Harper and Row, 1988), The Book of Job (1987), the Bhagavad Gita (Broadway Books, 2000), and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1995). His own poetry is collected in Parables and Portraits (1990), and he wrote the verse retelling The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults (1999). He lives in Berkeley, California.
