Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and freelance editor, interested in literature, art, psychoanalysis, social criticism, theory, history, crime fiction, and cinema.[1][2] Born in Manchester, England, he was an early translator of Situationist material into English.[3] He joined the English section of the Situationist International in 1965 and was expelled in December 1967.[3][4] He lives in New York City.[1]