Jesse Browner
Jesse Browner has published Conglomeros (Random House) in 1992. That was followed by the novel Turnaway (RH) in 1996 and by the non-fiction The Duchess Who Wouldn’t Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality in Western Civilization (Bloomsbury) in 2003. His latest novel, The Uncertain Hour, was published by Bloomsbury in May 2007.
He is also a literary and diplomatic translator. His work includes, among others, translations of books by Jean Cocteau, Paul Eluard and Rainer Maria Rilke, and Frédéric Vitoux’s award-winning Céline: A Biography. Most recently, He translated Matthieu Ricard’s Happiness (Little, Brown ’06).
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