Mark Mitchell
Mark Mitchell (b. 1961, Mississippi, USA) is a writer, editor, and translator, and the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. A selection of his books is listed below. Reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The Southwest Review, and he has written annotations for recordings published by Arbiter of Cultural Traditions. He is co-founder and managing editor of SUBTROPICS, the literary journal of the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he lives with his partner of twenty-nine years, David Leavitt, and Toby, their Bedlington terrier.
Works
2006
Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music: A Legacy of the Nineteenth Century – Edited with Allan Evans and with a Preface by Charles Rosen
2011
In Maremma: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany (revised and expanded edition) – Written with David Leavitt
2003
The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories – Edited with David Leavitt
2000
Virtuosi: A Defense and a (Sometimes Erotic) Celebration of Great Pianists
1995
The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing
Awards and Recognition
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Category
Fiction & Literature, General Non-Fiction, Biography & History, Essays, Entertainment & Culture