Lourie, Richard (1940- )

US translator, literary critic, and novelist. Known for his extensive critical analysis of Russian dissident author Andrei Sinyavsky, he was a prolific translator of Russian and Polish texts, including the works of Soviet writer Vladimir Voinovich and Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. He was founder of Kontakt, a company specializing in Russian-American publishing, and was editor-in-chief of Governor Mario Cuomo's project to translate Abraham Lincoln's writings into Polish. Recipient of the 1971 Joseph Henry Jackson Award for fiction, he often wrote plots involving cold war topics. Lourie was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.