Daniel Levin Becker

Daniel Levin Becker is a critic, editor and translator from Chicago. In 2009, he became the youngest member of the French literary collective Oulipo, which was the subject of his first book, Many Subtle Channels . His published translations include Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure , An Ideal Presence by Eduardo Berti and Serge Haroche's The Science of Light . Levin Becker is a founding editor of Fern Books, English editor for the French nonfiction publisher Odile Jacob, senior editor at...See more

Daniel Levin Becker is a critic, editor and translator from Chicago. In 2009, he became the youngest member of the French literary collective Oulipo, which was the subject of his first book, Many Subtle Channels . His published translations include Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure , An Ideal Presence by Eduardo Berti and Serge Haroche's The Science of Light . Levin Becker is a founding editor of Fern Books, English editor for the French nonfiction publisher Odile Jacob, senior editor at McSweeney's Publishing and a longtime contributing editor to The Believer . He lives in Paris. See less