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Stephen Mitchell

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born

January 01, 1943

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male

place of birth

Brooklyn, NY, The United States

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http://www.stephenmitchellbooks.com/

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Poetry, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction

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Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He is widely known for his translations of ancient classics, which use a poetic rather than literal approach. Languages that Stephen Mitchell has translated from include German, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Danish. Languages that he has not translated from, but rather put together interpretive versions from existing translations into Western languages include Chinese (Tao Te Ching), (The Second Book of the Tao), Sanskrit (Bhagavad Gita), Akkadian or ancient Babylonian (Gilgamesh). He has also written the nonfiction book The Gospel According to Jesus, and co-wrote two of Byron Katie's books, Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for J...more

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books by Stephen Mitchell

avg rating: 4.31 | 5,085 ratings | 696 reviews | 70 distinct works | 7 fans

	The Book of Job by Stephen Mitchell (Translator) avg rating 4.01 — 103 ratings — published 1987 7 editions	my rating:
	The Enlightened Heart by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 4.43 — 83 ratings — published 1989 3 editions	my rating:
	The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers/Pocket Edition by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 4.35 — 60 ratings — published 1991 4 editions	my rating:
	The Enlightened Mind by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 4.31 — 51 ratings — published 1991 2 editions	my rating:
	The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 3.68 — 56 ratings — published 1999	my rating:
	Tao Te Ching Journal by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 4.32 — 41 ratings — published 2000 2 editions	my rating:
	The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Stephen Mitchell, Rainer Maria Rilke avg rating 4.65 — 20 ratings — published 1982 2 editions	my rating:
	The Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2009	my rating:
	A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 1994 2 editions	my rating:
	Meetings with the Archangel: A Comedy of the Spirit by Stephen Mitchell avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published 1998 4 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Stephen Mitchell

"There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with."
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)

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"Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places inside us where princes and dragons, wizards and talking birds, impassable roads, impossible tasks, and happy endings have always existed, alive and bursting with psychic power."
— Stephen Mitchell

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"What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing."
— Stephen Mitchell (The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults)

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