Leonard Wolf (March 1, 1923 – March 20, 2019) was a Romanian-American poet, author, teacher, and translator. He is known for his authoritative annotated editions of classic gothic horror novels, including ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'', and '' The Phantom of the Opera'', and other critical works on the topic; and also for his

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translations of works ranging from those of

Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (; 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Poland, Polish-born Jews, Jewish novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States. Some of his works were adapted for the theater. He wrote and publish ...

to ''

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''. He is the father of Naomi Wolf.

Life and career

Born in Vulcan,

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(

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), Wolf was originally named 'Ludovic', which was changed upon his arrival in the United States in 1930 with his mother, Rose-ita, older brother, Maxim (Mel) and younger sister, Shirly. He wrote and published numerous poems, short stories, book reviews and articles, and was part of the Berkeley Renaissance of the late 1940s and 1950s. He was a professor of English at

San Francisco State University San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a Public university, public research university in San Francisco, California, United States. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is ...

(SFSU) until moving to New York around 1980, focussing on teaching poetry. He is the author of several books including ''A Dream of Dracula'', ''Blood Thirst'', ''100 Years of Vampire Fiction'' (editor), ''Bluebeard : The Life and Crimes of Gilles De Rais'', ''Doubles, Dummies and Dolls : Twenty-One Terror Tales of Replication'' (editor), ''Dracula : the Connoisseur's Guide'', ''False Messiah'', ''Horror - A Connoisseur's Guide To Literature And Film'', ''Monsters: Twenty Terrible and Wonderful Beasts From The Classic Dragon And Colossal Minotaur To King Kong And The Great Godzilla'', ''Quiromancia/ Chiromancy'', ''The False Messiah'', ''Voices from the love generation'' (Little, Brown, 1968), ''The Glass Mountain: A Novel'' (Overlook Press, 1993), ''The Passion of Israel'' yLeonard Wolf. Interviews Taken and Edited in Collaboration with Deborah Wolf, ''Wolf's Complete Book of Terror'' (editor), and ''Vini-Der-Pu: A

version of Winnie the Pooh'' (Dutton 2000). Wolf lived in New York. He was commissioned by Farrar, Straus & Giroux to write a biography of

. ''The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love and See'', by his daughter Naomi was published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. He died on March 20, 2019, in Corvallis, Oregon.

Happening House

While teaching at San Francisco State University in 1967, Wolf founded Happening House,Naomi Wolf (2005)
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(viewed at Google Books). one of many organizations that originated with the hippies of the Haight Ashbury district. It was conceived as an alternate university, an arts center and a place of learning. It often planned and sponsored social events such as softball games and free concerts. In collaboration with the Haight Ashbury Switchboard it had intermittent connections with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.

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