#  Ileene Smith 

Associate, Transcendentalism Initiative

 

 

 



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 email <ileenesmith@gmail.com> 

 



 

Ileene Smith is Editor at Large at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Editorial Director of *Jewish Lives*, published by Yale University Press. She is the recipient of the PEN/Roger Klein Award and BIO International Award for Editorial Excellence, and a fellow of both the New York Institute for the Humanities and Berkeley College at Yale University. Smith serves on the board of *The Paris Review*.



 

 

 





 

 

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