Macha Louis Rosenthal, poet, critic, editor, and teacher, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jacob and Ethel Brown Rosenthal. He took his B.A. (1937) and M.A. (1938) degrees at the University of Chicago. On 7 January 1939, he married Victoria Himmelstein, now a senior psychiatric social worker. They have three children: David, Alan, and Laura. From 1939 to 1945, he taught as an instructor in English at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. In 1946, he was hired as an instructor at New York University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1949. He has also done special studies at the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University. In 1961, he served as U.S. Cultural Exchange Program visiting specialist to Germany; in 1965, to Pakistan; in 1966, to Rumania, Poland, and Bulgaria, and in 1980, to Italy and France. In 1974, he was a visiting poet in Israel. From 1977 to 1979 he served as director...