Career
Arthur Livingston earned his Bachelor of Arts at Amherst College in 1904, and received a doctorate in Romance languages from Columbia University in 1910. Livingston taught Italian at Smith College (1908-1909) and at Cornell University (1910-1911). During World War I, Arthur Livingston was an editor with the Foreign Press Bureau of the Committee on Public Information.
After the war he co-founded with Paul Kennaday and Ernest Poole the Foreign Press Service, which represented foreign authors in English-language markets.
He persuaded many American publishers that it was possible to create a market for the work of European authors in the United States. Livingston helped introduce to the United States the work of Octave Aubry, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Benedetto Croce, Claude Farrère, Guglielmo Ferrero, André Maurois, Alberto Moravia, Gaetano Mosca, Giovanni Papini, Vilfredo Pareto, Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Prezzolini, and Guido da Verona.
In 1926 Livingston returned to academia, becoming Professor of Romance Languages at Columbia University in 1935. His political position created difficulties for him at Columbia University.
Arthur Livingston had a notable liaison with the actress Eleonora Duse.