1. Life and career

2. Awards

3. Works
    Poetry  Fiction  Criticism  Translations  Oratorio 

4. References

5. External links

Franklin D'Olier "F.D." Reeve (September 18, 1928 – June 28, 2013^[1]) was an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor.^[2] He was also the father of "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve.^[3] He was the grandson of the first American Legion national commander, Franklin D'Olier.

Life and career

Reeve was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anne Conrad D'Olier and Richard Henry Reeve.^[4] He was brought up outside New York City. Reeve worked in the wheat fields for a while during college and, after graduation, was a Hudson River longshoreman for a while. He graduated from Princeton University (1950) and Columbia University (1958), and in 1961 was one of the first exchanges between the American Council of Learned Societies and the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the late summer of 1962 he accompanied Robert Frost to Russia for his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, where Reeve served as Frost's translator.

Reeve started his academic career teaching Russian language and literature at Columbia University. After teaching at Columbia, Reeve moved to Wesleyan University in 1962 as chairman of the Russian Department. In 1967, he joined Wesleyan's inter-disciplinary College of Letters where he taught literature, humanities and creative writing until his retirement in 2002. During the course of his career he had visiting appointments at Oxford University, Yale, and Columbia.^[5]

Since 1994 he lived in Wilmington, Vermont with his wife, novelist Laura Stevenson. Reeve was an officer of the Poetry Society of America, the founding editor of Poetry Review, the secretary of Poets House in its formative years, and was associated with the New England Poetry Club and the New York Quarterly. He published over two dozen books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and translation.

Reeve died on June 28, 2013 at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire from complications from diabetes.^[1]

Awards

• New England Poetry Club's Golden Rose Award
• Award in literature from the American Academy National Institute of Arts and Letters
• Lit.D. from New England College

Works

• {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2000/51-reeve1.html| title=Venus, Half Dressed| work=AGNI| year=2000| volume=51 }}
• {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2000/51-reeve3.html| title=The Old World | work=AGNI| year=2000| volume=51 }}
• {{cite journal| url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2000/51-reeve2.html| title=Barnyard

• {{cite journal| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199507/ai_n8717850/| title=Coasting| work=The American Poetry Review| date=July 1995}}
• {{cite journal| url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/the-auctioneer-2493| title=The auctioneer| work=The New Criterion| volume=25| date=October 2006| page=32 }}

Poetry

• {{cite book|title=In the Silent Stones |location=New York |publisher=William Morrow |year=1968}}
• {{cite book|title=The Blue Cat |location=New York |publisher=Farrar,Straus & Giroux| year=1972}}
• {{cite book|title=Nightway| publisher=The Press at Colorado College |year=1987}}
• {{cite book|title=Concrete Music|location=Amherst, MA |publisher=Pyncheon House |year=1992 |isbn=978-1-881119-56-2}}
• {{cite book|title=The Moon and Other Failures|publisher=Michigan State University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-87013-514-9}}
• {{cite book|title=The Urban Stampede and Other Poems|publisher=Michigan State University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0870135941}}
• {{cite book|title=A World You Haven't Seen: Selected Poems |location=New York |publisher=Rattapallax Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-1-892494-48-1}}
• {{cite book|title=The Return of the Blue Cat|location=New York |publisher=Other Press| year=2005 |isbn=978-1-59051-172-5}}
• {{cite book|title=The Toy Soldier |location=Calgary| publisher=Bayeux Arts |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-896209-77-7}}
• {{cite book|title=The Blue Cat Walks the Earth |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Azul Editions| year=2007 |isbn=978-1-885214-46-1}}
• {{cite book|title=The Blue Cat Walks the Earth| location=Middlesbrough |publisher=Smokestack Books| year=2009| isbn=978-0-9560341-0-6}}
• {{cite book|title=The Puzzle Master|publisher=NYQ Books|year=2010|isbn=978-1-935520-20-7}}

Fiction

• {{cite book| title=Nathaniel Purple| publisher=Voyage| year=2012 | isbn=978-0-9826644-5-2}}
• {{cite book| title=North River: short stories| publisher=Azul Editions| year=2006 | isbn=978-1-885214-33-1 }}
• {{cite book| title=My Sister Life| publisher=Other Press| year=2005| isbn=978-1-59051-145-9}}
• {{cite book|title=A Few Rounds of Old Maid| publisher=Azul Editions| year=1995| isbn=1-885214-00-6}}
• {{cite book|title=White Colors| publisher=Farrar Straus and Giroux| year=1973| isbn=0-374-28927-1}}
• {{cite book|title=The Brother|publisher=Farrar Straus and Giroux| year=1971}}
• {{cite book|title=Just Over The Border|publisher=William Morrow|year=1969}}
• {{cite book|title=The Red Machines |publisher=William Morrow |year=1968}}

Criticism

• {{cite book|title=The White Monk: An Essay on Dostoevsky and Melville| publisher=Vanderbilt University Press| year=1989| isbn=0826512348}}
• {{cite book|title=The Russian Novel|publisher=McGraw Hill| year=1966}}
• {{cite book|title=Robert Frost in Russia| publisher=Atlantic-Little,Brown| year=1964}}
• {{cite book|title=Aleksandr Blok: Between Image and Idea| publisher=Columbia University Press| year=1962}}

Translations

• {{cite book|title=The Garden, New and Selected Poetry and Prose by Bella Akhmadulina|publisher=Henry Holt and Co.| year=1990}}
• {{cite book|title=Contemporary Russian Drama|publisher=Pegasus| year=1968}}
• {{cite book|title=Anthology of Russian Plays, volume 2, 1890-1960|publisher=Vintage Books| year=1963}}
• {{cite book|title=Anthology of Russian Plays, volume 1, 1790-1890|publisher=Vintage Books| year=1961}}

Oratorio

• "The Urban Stampede", with music by Andrew Gant, London’s Barbican 2000

References

External links

• "Interview with F. D. Reeve", Cervena Barva Press
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121183805/http://www.fdreeve.org/interview.html "Interview with The New York Quarterly", New Hampshire Public Radio]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080819193419/http://www.fdreeve.org/ Author's website]

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