From: CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS, Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1983:
PERSONAL: Born July 18, 1936, in Vicksburg, MS; son of Earle Landry (Schoene) (anthropologist and activist) and Barbara Leonard (author and activist) Reynolds. Married to Mary Kay Crawford, 1961 (divorced). Children: Allan Roder, Anthony Felix Reynolds and Margot Gayle Backus. Died March 10, 2022, in Harlingen, TX
EDUCATION: Attended Antioch College, 1953-56; B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1961; M.A. Tufts University, 1962; graduate study at the University of Texas at Austin, 1966.
CAREER: Author of 7 books of poetry. Teacher, Pentucket Regional High School, Merrimac. MA , 1963-64; Associate Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin, 1966-68, Fellow, National Translation Center, Austin, TX 1968. Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1969 for study in Italy.
List of Books (Ryoanji, Halflife, Catfish Goodbye, Slocum, Que, The Women Poem and Dawn Chorus) and plays ("Peace" is a musical translation from classical Greek of a play by Aristophanes, the other "The Tightwad," a translation from French of a play by Moliere; he also translated Mencius from the Chinese)--and all the languages he spoke.
