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Stephen Mitchell (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is a poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist. He is married to Byron Katie, founder of The Work.

Stephen Mitchell was educated at Amherst College, the University of Paris, and Yale University, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice.

Mitchell’s translations and adaptions include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, The Second Book of the Tao, and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. He is coauthor of three of his wife's bestselling books: Loving What Is, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself. His latest book, The Way of Forgiveness, is a Zen-inflected midrash on the Joseph story from the Book of Genesis.