STANLEY MOSSwas born in 1925 in Woodhaven, NY. Age 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He kicked around Trinity College and Yale University, worked as a counter-spy for Local 65, sang in a band, worked at New Directions, for Botteghe Oscure in Rome, taught in Rome and Barcelona, is an Old Master dealer specializing in Spanish and Italian paintings, many of which he has discovered. Self-taught in art history, he has sold pictures to the world's major museums. He is publisher and editor at the Sheep Meadow Press. He is published in The New Yorker, TLS, and other reviews in countries where the English language is read. He is translated into German by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, into Chinese by Fu Hao, and into Spanish by Valerie Mejer. There are other translations in the works. He lives mostly on a farm in Duchess County, NY, and is a notorious dog and donkey lover. He is married to the forgiving Jane.