Stephen Mitchell (translator)

Education

Career

Books

Poetry

• Parables and Portraits, HarperCollins, 1990,

  Fiction

• The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults, Harmony Books, 1999,
• Meetings with the Archangel: A Comedy of the Spirit, HarperCollins, 1998,

  Nonfiction

• Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness, St. Martin's Essentials, 2019,
• A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around, by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell, HarperOne, 2017,
• A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are, Harmony Books, 2007,
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life, Harmony Books, 2002,
• The Gospel According to Jesus, Harper Perennial, 1993,

  Translations and adaptations

• Beowulf, Yale University Press, October, 2017,
• The Odyssey, Atria Books, 2013,
• The Iliad, Free Press, 2011,
• The Second Book of the Tao, Penguin Press, 2009,
• Gilgamesh: A New English Version, Free Press, 2004,
• Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation, Harmony Books, 2002,
• Real Power: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching, Riverhead Books, 1998,
• Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda, HarperCollins, 1997,
• Genesis: A New Translation of the Classic Biblical Stories, Harper Collins, 1996,
• Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, Modern Library, 1995, 0-67-960161-9
• A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew, Harper Perennial, 1994,
• The Selected Poetry of Dan Pagis, University of California Press, 1996,
• Tao Te Ching, HarperCollins, 1988, hardcover, paperback, ISBN paperback P.S. edition 0-06-114266-2, pocket edition, illustrated edition
• The Book of Job, Harper Perennial, 1992,
• The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, University of California Press, 1996,
• The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Simon & Schuster, 1985,
• The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke, Graywolf Press, 1985,
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House, 1984,
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House, 1983,
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Random House 1982,, Vintage, 1989,
• "Tao Te King", Lao Tseu, , 2008
• "Tao Te King, Un Voyage Illustré", Lao Tseu, , 2008
• "Tao Te King", édition Poche, Lao Tseu, , 2012
• "Gilgamesh, la quête de l'immortalité", traducteur français Aurélien Clause, , 2013

  As editor

• Question Your Thinking, Change the World: Quotations from Byron Katie, Hay House, 2007,
• The Essence of Wisdom: Words from the Masters to Illuminate the Spiritual Path, Broadway Books, 1998,
• Bestiary: An Anthology of Poems about Animals, Frog, Ltd., 1996,
• Into the Garden: A Wedding Anthology, HarperCollins, 1993,
• The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose, 1991,
• The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, HarperCollins, 1989,
• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn, Grove Press, 1976,

  Children's books

• The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen, Candlewick Press, 2007,
• Iron Hans: A Grimms’ Fairy Tale, Candlewick Press, 2007,
• Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings: Three Tales from the Arabian Nights, Walker & Co., 2007,
• The Tinderbox, by Hans Christian Andersen, Candlewick Press, 2007,
• The Wishing Bone and Other Poems, Candlewick Press, 2003,
• The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, Candlewick Press, 2002,
• Jesus: What He Really Said and Did, Harpertempest 2002,
• The Creation, Dial Books, 1990,