Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. A brilliant poet, short-story writer, and literary talent, he contributed "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" to the first issue of Partisan Review. His books include Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays; the works of poetry Genesis: Book One and Summer Knowledge; and the short-fiction collections The World Is a Wedding and Successful Love and Other Stories. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. Ben Mazer was born in New York City and was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and he took his MA and PhD in critical editing and textual scholarship under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett at the Editorial Institute at Boston University. Mazer is the author of nearly a dozen collections of poetry, and he is the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom and Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, among other works. He lives in Cambridge.
