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A poet, essayist, translator, and classicist, Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario, and has taught at McGill University and the University of Michigan, among others. Her verse novel Autobiography of Red (Knopf, 1998) and Nox (New Directions, 2010) are among her best-known books. She won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband (2001), two Griffin Poetry Prizes, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. She has also held a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award, and has translated Sappho, Euripides, and Sophocles.