Background
RABASSA, Gregory was born on March 9, 1922 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Miguel Rabassa and Clara Macfarland.
RABASSA, Gregory was born on March 9, 1922 in Yonkers, New York, United States. Son of Miguel Rabassa and Clara Macfarland.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1945. Doctor of Letters honorary, Dartmouth College, 1982. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1947.
Doctor of Philosophy in Portuguese, Columbia University, 1954. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Hartford, 2005. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Massachusetts, 2008.
Assistant Professor 1958-1963, Association Professor, of Spanish and Portuguese 1963-1968. Professor, of Romance Languages, Queens College, Flushing, New York 196886, Distinguished Professor since 1986. Albert Bildner Professor, of Latin American Studies, City University of New York Grad.
School since 1991; Association. Professional assens. Fulbright-Hays Fellow, Brazil 1965-1966.
Guggenheim Fellow since 1988. National Book.
Contributor articles to professional journals. Author If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, 2005, A Cloudy Day in Gray Minor, Early Poems, 1945-1948, 1992.
Staff sergeant Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945. Member Renaissance Society of America, Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Studies Association, American Literature Translators Association, Hispanic Society of America, Century Associate, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Brazilian Academy Letters (correspondent).
Married 1st Roney Edelstein 1957 (divorced in 1966), one daughter. Married 2nd Clementine Christos in 1966, one daughter.