Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR's show "In Contrast." His books include On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish: The Making of a New American language (2003), Dictionary Days (2008), Gabriel García Márrquez: The Early Years (2010), Singer's Typewriter and Mine (2012), A Critic's Journey (2013), Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2019). He is general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). He has translated Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, and Cervantes and Shakespeare into Spanglish. His work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, radio, TV, and theater.