Jon Christopher Swan (June 10, 1929 – September 28, 2022) was an American poet, playwright, librettist, journalist, and editor.
In the 1950s, he taught at the Ecole d'Humanite in Switzerland, worked for the American Friends Service Committee, and received a master's degree in English from Boston University.
Among the plays produced are Three Cheers for What's-its-Name (1968), Fireworks (1969),[2] Man In Space (1969), an adaptation of Aesop's Fables (1972), and Mostly Wolfgang (1991).
[3] In collaboration with Ulu Grosbard, Swan translated Peter Weiss's Die Ermittlung (The Investigation) into English for the work's premiere on Broadway in 1966[4] and translated Heinrich von Kleist's Der Zerbrochne Krug (The Broken Pitcher) for its New York premiere in 1981.
[6] In collaboration with Carl Weber, he completed a translation of Peter Weiss's play Hölderlin, published in 2010.