of Genesis, translation by Robert Alter, illustrated by R. Crumb, 2009, W.W. Norton (first edition, 1996), The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary, 2010, W.W. Norton, Ancient Israel: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation with Commentary, 2013, W.W. Norton, Strong As Death Is Love: Song of Songs Ruth Esther Jonah And Daniel: A Translation with Commentary, 2015, W.W. Norton, The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary, 2018, W.W. Norton, Other works Rogue's Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel, 1965, Harvard University Press Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre, 1975, University of California Press, A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal, in collaboration with Carol Cosman, 1979, Basic Books, The Art of Biblical Narrative, 1981, Basic Books, Motives for Fiction, 1984, Harvard University Press, The Art of Biblical Poetry, 1985, Basic Books, The Literary Guide to the Bible Edited by Alter and Frank Kermode, 1987, Harvard University Press, The Invention of Hebrew Prose: Modern Fiction and the Language Revolution, 1988, University of Washington Press. Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, 1990, W.W. Norton, Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem, 1991, Harvard University Press, Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Novel, 2005, Yale University Press, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible, 2010, Princeton University Press, The Art of Bible Translation, 2019, Princeton University Press, Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense, 2021, Princeton University Press, References External links CV on UCBerkeley's website Biography at Washington University in St. Louis The Five Books of Moses review at The New Yorker The Five Books of Moses review at The Washington Post The Five Books of Moses review by Alan Jacobs in First Things (Aug/Sept. 2005) The Book of Psalms review at The New Yorker Audio interview with Robert Alter Robert Alter's articles in the London Review of Books The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols., reviewed by Gary A. Rendsburg at Moment Magazine Sample chapter of Alter's translation of Genesis 1935 births Living people Columbia College (New York) alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American biblical scholars Jewish American academics Translators of the Bible into English Jewish translators of the Bible Translators from Hebrew Translators to English American literary critics Bible