Lewis HydeLewis Hyde was born in Boston and studied at the Universities of Minnesota and Iowa. In addition to The Gift, he is the author of This Error Is the Sign of Love, a book of poems; Trickster Makes This World;and Common as Air. He has also published two volumes of translations of Vicente Aleixandre's poetry and is the editor of On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg and The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde teaches at Kenyon College, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor in Creative Writing. Read More Read Less