Édouard Roditi

Poet, art critic, and translator Édouard Roditi was born in Paris in 1910 to American parents. He studied at Oxford and at the University of Chicago and lived in London, Paris, and Berlin from 1929 to 1937. A polyglot, he was the first to translate André Breton’s works into English. Roditi also worked for the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II and was a translator at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, as well as for the State Department during the San Francisco conference that established the United Nations.