Mason, Alane Salierno 1964-

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Mason, Alane Salierno 1964-

PERSONAL:

Born July 5, 1964.

ADDRESSES:

Home—New York, NY. Office—W.W. Norton & Company, 500 5th Ave., New York, NY 10110.

CAREER:

Editor and translator. W.W. Norton, New York, NY, senior editor.

WRITINGS:

(Translator and author of introduction) Elio Vittorini, Conversations in Sicily, foreword by Ernest Hemingway, New Directions (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Samantha Schnee and Dedi Felman) Words without Borders: The World through the Eyes of Writers, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Founding editor of Words without Borders. Contributor to periodicals, including Vanity Fair, Baltimore Sun, One Story, and Commonweal.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, March 1, 2001, Michael Rogers, review of Conversations in Sicily, p. 135.

New York Times, February 18, 2004, Julie Salamon, "Online Magazine Removes Cultural Blinders."

ONLINE

Frigatezine,http://www.frigatezine.com/ (December 15, 2007), Eric Darton, review of Conversations in Sicily.

One Story,http://www.one-story.com/ (September 10, 2004), author profile.