Cynthia Haven
Cynthia L. Haven is an American literary scholar, critic, Slavicist, and journalist. She has written for a wide range of publications, including The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and "The New York Times Book Review". She is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. Her books include "Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard", which the "San Francisco Chronicle" named one of the top books of 2018, and "Czesław Miłosz: A California Life". She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna  and a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages while researching her book on French theorist René Girard. She was a Voegelin fellow at the Hoover Institution while working on her book on Nobel poet Joseph Brodsky and his translator, George L. Kline. She blogs at The Book Haven. She studied with Joseph Brodsky and has won many literary and journalistic awards, including two Hopwood Awards while at the University of Michigan. She is currently completing a Penguin Modern Classics anthology for the selected writings or René Girard.