A translator, an eminent scholar of Persian literature, and an acclaimed poet, Dick Davis has published more than twenty books. Educated in England, he lived and taught in Iran for eight years. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and emeritus professor of Persian at Ohio State University. His translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, was chosen as one of the ?ten best books of 2006? by The Washington Post. The Times Literary Supplement's review of his Love in Another Language, said, ?Dick Davis's collected poems of over forty-three years constitute what the great Persian poet Nezami called a ?makhzan-e asrar,? a treasure house of mysteries and perfected marvels.?