Red Pine | |||||||
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| Born | Bill Porter October 3, 1943 Los Angeles, California, United States | ||||||
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara Columbia University | ||||||
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| Children | Son, Red Cloud, born in 1982; daughter, Iris, born 1987 | ||||||
| Parent(s) | Father, Arnold Porter | ||||||
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| Chinese | 赤松 | ||||||
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Bill Porter (born October 3, 1943) is an American author who translates under the pen-name Red Pine (Chinese: 赤松; pinyin: Chì Sōng). He is a translator of Chinese texts, primarily Taoist and Buddhist, including poetry and sūtras. In 2018, he won the American Academy of Arts & Letters Thornton Wilder Prize for translation.[1]