Anne Carson is the author of Eros: The Bittersweet. Born in 1950 in Toronto, Carson is a poet, translator, essay writer and a professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Little is publicly known about her private life, about which she reveals little. To date, Carson has written ten books, but her first book other than her dissertation was Eros: The Bittersweet. After the book was published, she soon became well-known in the international poetry community.