Rupert John Cornford (1915 - 1936) was an English poet, communist and Charles Darwin's great-grandson. He was a member of the International Brigades and died while fighting fascism during the Spanish Civil War. Jonathan Galassi was born in Seattle, is the President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the eight major publishers in New York. He is a translator and poet and his honors include a 1989 Guggenheim Fellowship and being an honorary chairman of the Academy of American Poets.