Fainlight, Ruth (1931–)

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Fainlight, Ruth (1931–)

British-American poet and short-story writer. Name variations: Ruth Sillitoe. Born Ruth Esther Fainlight, May 2, 1931, in New York, NY; dau. of Leslie Alexander Fainlight and Fanny Nimhauser Fainlight; educated in US and England; m. Alan Sillitoe (writer), 1959.

Published many collections of poetry, including Cages (1966), Another Full Moon (1976), Sybils and Others (1980), The Knot (1990), This Time of Year (1994), Sugar-Paper Blue (1997) and Burning Wire (2002); translated All Citizens Are Soldiers by Lope de Vega (with Alan Sillitoe, 1966), Navigations (1983), and Marine Rose by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1987); wrote opera libretti for Royal Opera (1991 and 1993). Received Cholmondeley Award (1994).