He also translated all the major novels of Thomas Mann, as well as works by many other German writers.
He attended Wittenberg University, then studied English literature at Cornell and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
He learned German at the Goethe-Institute, and married his teacher, Dr. Ulrike Dorda.
[2] Woods lived for many years in California before moving to Berlin in 2005.
[3] He won the PEN Prize for translation twice, for that work and again for Perfume in 1987.