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Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His award-winning books include The Hispanic Condition (1995), The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), On Borrowed Words (2001), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda and Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language (both 2003). He is also the editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Latino Literature and of the three-volume set of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004), released under the aegis of The Library of America. Routledge published The Essential Ilan Stavans in 2000. Dr. Stavans� work has been translated into half a dozen languages. In addition to his literary endeavors, he is the host of La Plaza�s �Conversations with Ilan Stavans,� a weekly television program on WGBH about the culture and concerns of Latinos and one of the nation's longest-running TV series devoted to Latino themes. Among many other recognitions and prizes, Dr. Stavans is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Utne Reader Alternative Press Award, and the Latino Literature Prize. A descendant of Eastern European Jews who settled in Mexico, Dr. Stavans calls himself �a sum of parts. Spanish is my right eye, English my left; Yiddish my background and Hebrew my conscience.�