Stephen Mitchell (born 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is a poet, translator, scholar, and anthologist.
Mitchell's translations and adaptions include the Tao Te Ching,[3] which has sold over a million copies, Gilgamesh,[4] The Iliad,[1][5][6][7] The Odyssey,[8] The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita,[9] The Book of Job,[10] The Second Book of the Tao, and The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
His Selected Rilke has been called "the most beautiful group of poetic translations [the twentieth] century has produced" (Chicago Tribune), his Gilgamesh was runner-up for the first annual Quill award for poetry, and his Iliad was one of The New Yorker's Favorite Books of 2011.
He is also coauthor of three of his wife's bestselling books: Loving What Is, A Thousand Names for Joy, and A Mind at Home with Itself.
Mitchell is married to Byron Katie, founder and promoter of the self-inquiry method "The Work".