{{Short description|American translator of French literature (born 1942)}} {{Infobox writer | embed = |image= File:Journalist and translator William Rodarmor – profile picture taken in March 2012.jpg |caption=Journalist and translator William Rodarmor – profile picture taken in March 2012 | honorific_prefix = | name = William Rodarmor |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|06|05}}<ref name="Penguin Random House"/> |birth_place = New York | nationality = United States |alma_mater = Dartmouth College (BA)<br/>Columbia University (JD)<br/>UC Berkeley (MJ) | children = |occupation = French literary translator, <br/> Journalist | genre = | years_active = 1970–present | awards = Lewis Galantière Award (1996)<br/> Albertine Prize (2021) |notable_works = ''Tamata and the Alliance'' (translator)<br/>''And Their Children After Them'' (translator)<br/> | spouse = | partner = }}
'''William Rodarmor''' (born June 5, 1942) is an American journalist, adventurer, and translator of French literature. He is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association, and the Albertine Prize.
Rodarmor was born in New York City and pursued a bilingual education in English and French. He briefly practiced law in San Francisco but quickly abandoned it to sail to Tahiti. He then spent the 1970s traveling, mountaineering, and sailing. He took odd jobs and wrote freelance. Sailing in the South Pacific, he met singlehanded sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti. This led to Rodarmor's first book translation: Moitessier's round-the-world saga, ''The Long Way''. He would go on to translate over forty more books, including Moitessier's popular ''Tamata and the Alliance'', and a number of books by Gérard de Villiers, Tanguy Viel, and Katherine Pancol.
Rodarmor concurrently pursued a career in journalism, including working as an associate editor for ''PC World'' in the late 1980s, and as the managing editor of ''California Monthly'' (UC Berkeley's alumni magazine) during the 1990s. In the 2000s he turned again to freelance writing.
==Biography== ===Early life and education=== [[File:William Rodarmor photograph by the Eiffel Tower in 1963.jpg|thumb|right|William Rodarmor on leave from the U.S. Army in Germany in 1963, leaping in front of the Eiffel Tower. Rodarmor staged this self-portrait in an homage to photographer Art Buchwald.]]
William Rodarmor was born in New York City on June 5, 1942,<ref name="Penguin Random House"/> and attended the Lycée Français de New York, as well as Collège Beau Soleil in Switzerland,<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> becoming bilingual at an early age.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/> He enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1960, but dropped out to serve in the Army from 1961 to 1964. While in the service he learned Russian in California, and served as an Army Russian linguist in Germany.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="Yollin 1985"/><ref name="Penguin Random House"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> He returned to Dartmouth to earn his B.A. in 1966.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> After earning a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1969,<ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> he moved to San Francisco and spent one year practicing personal injury law.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="Yollin 1985"/> In 1984 he earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/>
===Early career and wilderness adventures===
Rodarmor quit the law in 1970, when he was 28,<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name="Scherman 1995"/> and sailed from Panama<ref name="Scherman 1995"/> to Tahiti,<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> as a crew member on a 40-foot French ketch.<ref name="Scherman 1995"/> This would be the first of many adventures he embarked on during the next decade;<ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="Yollin 1985"/> spending the 1970s rafting rivers and climbing mountains.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name="Yollin 1985"/>
While in Tahiti he met Bernard Moitessier, a French singlehanded sailor and popular author. Moitessier asked Rodarmor to translate his round-the-world saga, ''The Long Way'', into English.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> This would be the first of over forty French-to-English book translations that Rodarmor would undertake during his decades-long career in literary translation.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/><ref name="Directory of Translators"/>
Inspired by Moitessier, in 1971 he sailed 30 days solo from Tahiti to Hawaii.<ref name="Yollin 1985"/><ref name ="St. Petersburg Review 6"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/>
Rodarmor worked as a National Park Service ranger in Alaska in 1973–1975, led wilderness trips for Mountain Travel,<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name ="Miller 1976"/><ref name ="Cronin 1975"/><ref name="Swami"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/> he also worked for the U.S. State Department as a French interpreter,<ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="Penguin Random House"/> and in 1974 he joined a mountaineering expedition to Chile.<ref name ="Miller 1976"/><ref name="Yollin 1985"/>
===Journalistic and editorial career===
Throughout the 1970s, Rodarmor was a freelance writer, writing on topics ranging from sailing and climbing to acupuncture and plastic surgery.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="Swami"/>
He also worked as an editor for ''East Bay Review'' in the late 1970s.<ref name="Writers Directory 2005"/><ref>''East Bay Review of the Performing Arts'' original mastheads, 1977-1978.</ref>
In 1982 he went back to school, to pursue a master's degree in journalism at University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1984.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> He said he especially enjoyed learning broadcasting from Bill Drummond and long-form writing from Bernard Taper and David Littlejohn.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/>
In 1983 Rodarmor published one of his more notable articles, an investigative piece that brought to light allegations of sexual abuse by guru Muktananda, titled “The Secret Life of Swami Muktananda" in ''CoEvolution Quarterly''.<ref name="Swami"/><ref name ="Harris 1994"/><ref name ="Caldwell 2001"/><ref name="McBride/Rodarmor 1984"/>
He was an associate editor for ''PC World'' magazine from 1986 to 1989, then the managing editor of ''California Monthly'' (U.C. Berkeley's alumni magazine) until 1999.<ref name="Writers Directory 2005"/><ref name="Berkeleyside 2010"/><ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="Geiger September 1993"/><ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/>
During this time he wrote on a broad array of subjects, ranging from computers to medicine,<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> but with a frequent focus on law.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> During his tenure at ''California Monthly'', he received the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's 1993 gold medal for Best Article of the Year in higher education reporting for "TKO in Sociology," the story of French sociology professor Loïc Wacquant who spent four years studying boxers in the Chicago ghetto.<ref name="Geiger September 1993"/><ref name="Dartmouth 1993"/>
After a decade at ''California Monthly'', Rodarmor accepted a position as the top editor of a web-based business publication, ''Links to Solutions''. He found the new position to be challenging but exciting, starting with a pool of "underpaid" freelance writers of varying skills. He weeded out the less-than-desirable reporters, and fought to raise the pay rate for the better ones. "Good writers are an editor's stock in trade," he says. "You have to treasure them and treat them right."<ref name="Markowitz 2001"/><ref name ="NCTA 2018"/> In 2001, as part of the dot-com crash the publication went bankrupt, propelling him back into the world of freelance writing and editing.<ref name="Markowitz 2001"/>
===Personal life=== Rodarmor grew up in New York,<ref name="Scherman 1995"/> and has long lived in Berkeley, California.<ref name="Directory of Translators"/><ref name="Writers Directory 2005"/><ref name="Berkeleyside 2010"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2023"/> He was married to novelist Thaisa Frank with whom he had a son, Casey Rodarmor (b. 1983),<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/><ref name ="The Chaucer Review 2003"/> a UC Berkeley graduate in computer science known for his blockchain expertise.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2023"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> Rodarmor and Frank divorced in 2002.<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/>
While studying law at Columbia in the late 1960s he forged a life-long friendship with his classmate Toby Golick (who later became a law professor). Later in life they renewed their romantic relationship.<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2023"/><ref name="French Feast 2011"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> Together, Golick and Rodarmor won ''The New Yorker'' cartoon caption contest in 2010.<ref name="Berkeleyside 2010"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/>
==Translation work== Since 1970 Rodarmor has translated over 40 books and screenplays from French to English.<ref name="Writers Directory 2005"/><ref name="Penguin Random House"/><ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/><ref name="Directory of Translators"/>
[[File:Bernard Moitessier and William Rodarmor on Moitissier's boat Joshua in Tahiti in 1971.jpg|thumb|300px|William Rodarmor (right) with notable French sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti in 1971. <br/>Soon after arriving in Tahiti, Rodarmor met famed solo sailor Bernard Moitessier, who had recently completed an extraordinary solo non-stop sail around the world. They became friends and Rodarmor translated Moitessier’s book about his trip, {{ill|The Long Way (book)|lt=The Long Way|fr|La Longue Route|italic=yes}}.]]
Among his numerous authors, Rodarmor has translated several more than once. He started with Bernard Moitessier’s round-the-world saga {{ill|The Long Way (book)|lt=The Long Way|fr|La Longue Route|italic=yes}} in 1973,<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993"/><ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024"/> and continued the stories of sailing adventures with ''Tamata and the Alliance'' in 1995<ref name="Scherman 1995"/> and ''A Sea Vagabond’s World'' in 1998. Between 2014 and 2016, Rodarmor reeled off five spy thrillers by Gérard de Villiers, whose CIA contractor hero Malko Linge has been compared to that of Ian Fleming's James Bond.<ref name="BBC 2013"/><ref name="rtbookreviews"/> Rodarmor has also translated a series of time-travel books by {{ill|Guillaume Prévost (author)|lt=Guillaume Prévost|fr|Guillaume Prévost|fa|گیوم پروو|it|Guillaume Prévost|pt|Guillaume Prévost}} and novels by Katherine Pancol.<ref name="Scherman 1995"/><ref name="Kirkus 2024"/>
===Reviews and style=== Reviewers have called Rodarmor's translations "elegant"<ref name="Tattersall 2002"/><ref name="Small 1993"/> and "smooth."<ref name="Gaffney 1994"/><ref name ="Van Riper 2024"/>
''The Wall Street Journal'' in its review of de Villiers' ''The Madmen of Benghazi'' said that Rodarmor's English translation "is actually better than the original."<ref name="WSJ 2014"/>
Nancy Cirillo, in reviewing the translation of {{ill|lt=Stéphane Dufoix's|Stéphane Dufoix|fr|Stéphane Dufoix}} ''Diasporas'', said that "Rodarmor's translation is seamless, rendered with that appearance of effortlessness that only the most gifted and painstaking translators can accomplish."<ref name ="Cirillo 2008"/>
William Scherman, writing about Moitessier's ''Tamata and the Alliance'', called it a "runaway bestseller (...) available in English through the brilliant translation of journalist William Rodarmor."<ref name="Scherman 1995"/>
A. Bowdoin Van Riper in reviewing ''The Fate of the Mammoth'' by {{ill|Claudine Cohen|fr}} said of the translation that it "reads smoothly and introduces only occasional infelicities."<ref name ="Van Riper 2024"/>
Multiple reviewers praised Rodarmor's translation of Nicolas Mathieu's bestseller ''And Their Children After Them'',<ref name="Eathorne 2020"/> especially for his ability to translate the slang-rich book into American vernacular. Joshua Armstrong writing for the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' said that "veteran translator William Rodarmor does a good job capturing this tone, deftly transposing the slangy French dialogue into its 1990s English equivalent."<ref name="Armstrong 2021"/> Similarly, Boyd Tonkin writing for the ''Financial Times'' notes that "Rodarmor’s salty and supple translation lends to Anthony and his pals the smartass, vulnerable voices of American, not British, rust-belt teens."<ref name="Tonkin 2000"/> O'Keeffe writing for ''The Times Literary Supplement'' said "Mathieu’s handling of quotidian and often gritty subjects is disconcertingly lyrical, and it is rendered well by William Rodarmor’s translation."<ref name="O'keeffe 2020"/> On the other hand, Thomas Chatterton Williams writing for ''The New York Times'' deemed that the narrative had been "somewhat ineptly translated."<ref name="Thomas Chatterton Williams 2020"/><ref name="Publishing Perspectives 2021"/>
===Translation philosophy=== Rodarmor has said that literary translation "has all the pleasures of creative writing, and you never have writer’s block."<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/>
His loyalty as a translator is to both the author and the reader, "but in a pinch, I try to help the reader,"<ref name ="Pow!"/><ref name="Bridenne 2021"/> prioritizing their experience over producing a word-for-word translation.<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/> Along these lines, he favors the "stealth gloss," the practice of discreetly inserting a word or two to clarify an otherwise obscure passage.<ref name ="Pow!"/> Similarly, he may expand obscure abbreviations.<ref name ="Pow!"/> Once in a while he will even make factual corrections (i.e. dates of historical events) with the author's assent.<ref name ="Pow!"/> But he abstains when translating primary sources, in order to preserve their integrity. This was the case when he made the first English translation of the 1933 memoir of Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill.<ref name ="Pow!"/>
He says that his goal is "to produce a text so smooth that the reader isn’t aware it’s a translation"<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/> and that it should read like a book the original author would have written if he were fluent in English.<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/> In consequence he takes some liberties, especially with jokes, slang, and idioms when the author agrees.<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/> "Like most translators, I’m a ventriloquist," he says, "and I work hard to make people sound like themselves, and not like me."<ref name="Bridenne 2021"/>
===Awards=== Rodarmor has won several translation awards, most notably the Lewis Galantière Award<ref name="Booklist"/><ref name="Lewis Galantiere Award"/><ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/> and the Albertine Prize.<ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/><ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-B"/><ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-C"/>
In 1996 Rodarmor won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association for his translation of ''Tamata and the Alliance'' by Bernard Moitessier.<ref name="University of Chicago Press"/><ref name="Lewis Galantiere Award"/><ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/><ref name="Booklist"/><ref name="UC Berkeley News 1996"/> The award is given biennially for a distinguished book-length literary translation from any language.<ref name="Lewis Galantiere Award"/><ref name="UC Berkeley News 1996"/>
In 2001 he received an honorary mention from the Mildred L. Batchelder Award, bestowed by the American Library Association for his translation of ''Ultimate Game'', by {{ill|Christian Lehmann (author)|lt=Christian Lehmann|fr|Christian Lehmann}}.<ref name="ALA-Ultimate Game"/><ref name="ALA-Batchelder Award"/><ref name="ALAIR 2001"/><ref name ="Teacher Librarian 2001"/>
In 2017 he received the Northern California Book Award for Fiction Translation for his translation of ''The Slow Waltz of Turtles'' by Katherine Pancol.<ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-B"/><ref name="Directory of Translators"/>
In 2021 he won the Albertine Prize for his translation of ''And Their Children After Them'' by Nicolas Mathieu.<ref name="frenchculture.org 2021"/><ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-B"/><ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-C"/> In 2023 he received the Albertine Jeunesse prize for his translation of ''The Last Giants'' by {{ill|François Place (author)|lt=François Place|fr|François Place (écrivain)|ru|Плас, Франсуа}}.<ref name="Albertine Jeunesse 2023"/><ref name="villa-albertine.org 2023"/><ref name="frenchculture.org 2023"/><ref name="Publishing Perspectives 2023"/> The Albertine Prize, co-presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and the French Embassy, recognizes American readers’ favorite French-language fiction title recently translated into English.<ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-B"/>
In 2024 Rodarmor's translation of ''A Man with No Title'' by Xavier Le Clerc won the PEN Translates award, a grant program by English PEN to encourage U.K. publishers to acquire more books from other languages.<ref name="PEN Translates 2024"/><ref name=" PEN Translates-About the award"/>
==Selected works== ===Translation works=== ====Fiction====
*{{cite book |last=Gomez-Arcos |first=Agustin |author-link= Agustin Gomez-Arcos |date=1984 |title= The Carnivorous Lamb |publisher=Godine/Arsenal Pulp Press |isbn=978-1551522302}} *{{cite book |last=Belloc |first=Denis |author-link= |date=1991 |title= Neons |publisher= Godine/Quartet |isbn=978-0879238582}} *{{cite book |last=Belloc |first= Denis|author-link= |date= 1992|title= Slow Death in Paris |publisher= Quartet |isbn=978-0704327870}} *{{cite book |last=Collard |first=Cyril |author-link=Cyril Collard |date=1993 |title= Savage Nights |publisher= Quartet Books/Overlook Press |isbn=}} (made into a 1992 film) *{{cite book |last=Failler |first=Jean |author-link= |date= 2003|title= Mayhem in Saint-Malo |publisher= Editions du Palémon |isbn=}} *{{cite book |last=Zeller |first=Florian |author-link= Florian Zeller |date= 2007|title= Julien Parme |publisher=Other Press |isbn=978-1590512807}} *{{cite book |last= Pancol|first= Katherine|author-link= Katherine Pancol|date=2013 |title= The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles |publisher= Penguin Books |isbn=978-1410467676}} *{{cite book |last=Lattès |first= Jean-Claude|author-link= |date=2014 |title= The Last King of the Jews |publisher= Open Road |isbn=}} *Spy series featuring Malko Linge: **{{cite book |last=de Villiers |first=Gérard |author-link= Gérard de Villiers |date= 2014|title= The Madmen of Benghazi |publisher= Vintage Books |isbn=978-0804169318}} **{{cite book |last=de Villiers |first=Gérard |author-link= Gérard de Villiers |date= 2014|title= Chaos in Kabul |publisher= Vintage Books |isbn=978-0804169332}} **{{cite book |last=de Villiers |first=Gérard |author-link= Gérard de Villiers |date= 2015|title= Revenge of the Kremlin |publisher= Vintage Books |isbn=978-0804169356}} **{{cite book |last=de Villiers |first=Gérard |author-link= Gérard de Villiers |date= 2016|title= Lord of the Swallows |publisher= Vintage Books |isbn=978-0804169370}} **{{cite book |last=de Villiers |first=Gérard |author-link= Gérard de Villiers |date= 2016|title= Surface to Air |publisher= Vintage Books |isbn=978-0804169394}} *{{cite book |last= Pancol|first= Katherine|author-link= Katherine Pancol |date=2016 |title= The Slow Waltz of Turtles |publisher= Penguin Books |isbn=9780143128175}} *{{cite book |last= Viel|first=Tanguy |author-link= Tanguy Viel |date= 2019|title= Article 353 |publisher= Other Press |isbn=978-1590519332}} *{{cite book |last=Mathieu |first= Nicolas|author-link= |date= 2020|title= And Their Children After Them |publisher= Other Press|isbn=978-1892746771}} *{{cite book |last=Salmon |first=Christian |author-link= |date=2022 |title= The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel|publisher= Other Press |isbn=978-1590511541}} *{{cite book |last= Viel|first=Tanguy |author-link= Tanguy Viel|date=2024 |title=The Girl You Call |url= |location= |publisher= Other Press |isbn=978-1635423259}}
====Nonfiction and biographies====
*{{cite book |last=Bagnis |first=Raymond |author-link=Raymond Bagnis |date=1973 |title=Fishes of Polynesia |url= |location= |publisher= Edipac-Hachette |isbn=978-0701804091}} *{{cite book |last=Moitessier |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Moitessier |date= 1975|title=The Long Way |url= |location= |publisher=Doubleday |isbn= 0-385-03867-4}} *{{cite book |last=Moitessier |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Moitessier |date=1995 |title=Tamata and the Alliance |url= |location= |publisher=Sheridan House |page= |isbn=978-0924486777}} *{{cite book |last=Moitessier |first=Bernard |author-link=Bernard Moitessier |date=1998 |title=A Sea Vagabond's World |url= |location= |publisher=Sheridan House |isbn= 978-1574090215}} *{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Claudine |author-link= |date=2002 |title=The Fate of the Mammoth |url= |location= |publisher= University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0226112923}} *{{cite book |last= Bengal |display-authors=et al. | authorlink= |title=Illustrations with Photoshop|url= |date= 2004|publisher= O'Reilly Media |isbn= 978-0596008598 }} *{{cite book |first=Patrick |last= Collandre |display-authors= et al. | authorlink= |title=Creating Photomontages with Photoshop |url= |date=2005 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |isbn=978-0596008581 }} *{{cite book |first=Bertrand |last= Bodin |display-authors=et al. | authorlink= |title=Assembling Panoramic Photos |url= |date= 2005|publisher= O'Reilly Media |isbn=978-0596009755 }} *{{cite book |first= Stéphane|last= Dufoix | authorlink= |title= Diasporas |url= |date=2008 |publisher= University of California Press |isbn= 978-0520253599}} *{{cite book |last=Cypel |first=Sylvain |author-link=Sylvain Cypel |date=2021 |title=The State of Israel vs. the Jews |url= |location= |publisher= Other Press |isbn=978-1635420975}} *{{cite book |last=Weill |first=Berthe |author-link=Berthe Weill |date=2022 |title=Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years Behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting |url= |location= |publisher= University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0226814360}} *{{cite book |first=Xavier |last= Le Clerc | authorlink= |title=A Man with No Title |url= |date=2024 |publisher= Saqi Books |isbn=978-0863569821 }}
====Young adult====
*{{cite book |last=Place |first=François |author-link= |date=1993 |title= The Last Giants|url= |location= |publisher= Godine |isbn=978-0879239909}} *{{cite book |last= Lehmann|first=Christian |author-link= |date=2000 |title=Ultimate Game |url= |location= |publisher=Godine |isbn=978-1567921076}} *{{cite book |last1=Modiano |first1=Patrick |author-link1= Patrick Modiano |last2=Sempé |first2=Jean-Jacques |author-link2= Jean-Jacques Sempé|date=2001 |title=Catherine Certitude |url= |location= |publisher= Godine |isbn=978-2070630066}} *{{cite book |last=Place |first=François |author-link= |date=2003 |title=The Old Man Mad About Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai |url= |location= |publisher= Godine |isbn=978-1567922608}} *''Book of Time'' trilogy: **{{cite book |last=Prévost |first=Guillaume |author-link= |date=2007 |title=The Book of Time |url= |location= |publisher= Scholastic |isbn=978-0-439-88375-7 }} **{{cite book |last=Prévost |first=Guillaume |author-link= |date=2008 |title=The Gate of Days |url= |location= |publisher= Scholastic |isbn=978-0-439-88376-4 }} **{{cite book |last=Prévost |first=Guillaume |author-link= |date=2009 |title=The Circle of Gold |url= |location= |publisher= Scholastic |isbn=978-0439883771 }} *{{cite book |last=Audouin-Mamikonian |first=Sophie |author-link= Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian |date=2012 |title=Tara Duncan and the Spellbinders |url= |location= |publisher= Sky Pony Press (Skyhorse Publishing) |isbn=978-1616089696}} *{{cite book |last=Audouin-Mamikonian |first=Sophie |author-link= Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian |date=2013 |title=Tara Duncan and the Forbidden Book |url= |location= |publisher= Sky Pony Press (Skyhorse Publishing) |isbn=978-1616089696}} *{{cite book |last=Audouin-Mamikonian |first=Sophie |author-link= Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian |date=2013 |title=Indiana Teller: Spring Moon |url= |location= |publisher= Entangled (Macmillan Publishers) |isbn=978-1-62266-129-9 }} *{{cite book |last1=Charrier |first1=Lisa |last2=Domergue |first2=Agnes |date=2014 |title=Oh My, Oh No! |url= |location= |publisher= Running Press Kids |isbn=978-0762454099}}
===Journalistic works=== *{{cite journal |last=Rodarmor|first=W. |date= Winter 1983|title= The Secret Life of Swami Muktananda|journal=CoEvolution Quarterly |volume= |issue= |pages=104–11 |doi= |url= https://www.themysticsvision.com/uploads/1/4/0/3/140380078/the_mystics_vision-supplemental_articles.pdf }}<ref name ="Caldwell 2001"/> *{{cite journal |first1= W. |last1= Rodarmor |authorlink1= |date=September 15, 1985 |title= A Brave New You|journal= California Living Magazine, San Francisco Examiner |volume= |issue= |pages=18–23 |doi= |url= }} *{{cite journal |first1= W. |last1= Rodarmor |date=December 1991 |title=Havoc in the Hills |journal= California Monthly |volume= |issue= |pages=10–13 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |doi= |url= }} *{{cite journal |last=Rodarmor|first=W. |date=September 1992 |title=TKO in Sociology |journal=California Monthly |volume= |issue= |pages= |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |doi= |url= }} *{{cite journal |first1= W. |last1= Rodarmor |date=December 2001 |title= Prosecution Complex|journal= California Lawyer |volume= |issue= |pages=21–27 |publisher=Daily Journal Corporation |doi= |url= }} *{{cite journal |first1= W. |last1= Rodarmor |date=December 1995 |title=A Delicate Balance |journal= California Monthly |volume= |issue= |pages=10–14 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |doi= |url= }} *{{cite journal |first1= W. |last1= Rodarmor |date=Winter 2003–2004 |title=Committed to Justice|journal= Boalt Hall Transcript |volume= |issue= |pages=20–27 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |doi= |url= }}
===Edited works=== *{{cite book |editor1-first= W.|editor1-last= Rodarmor | editor2-first= Tom |editor2-last= Milner |title=People Behind the News: Media Alliance's 1985 Guide to Accessible Bay Area Journalists |url= |date=1985 |publisher= Media Alliance |oclc=12174808 }}<ref name="Yollin 1985"/> *{{cite book |editor1-first=W. |editor1-last= Rodarmor | editor2-first= Anna |editor2-last= Livia |editor-link2=Anna Livia (author) |title=France: A Traveler's Literary Companion |url= |accessdate= |date=2008 |publisher= Whereabouts Press |location= United States|isbn=9781883513184}} *{{cite book |editor1-first=W. |editor1-last= Rodarmor |title=French Feast: A Traveler's Literary Companion |url= |accessdate= |date=2011 |publisher=Whereabouts Press |location=United States |isbn=9780982785218 }}
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<ref name="Writers Directory 2005">{{cite book |url= https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/rodarmor-william|title=Writers Directory 2005 |publisher=St. James Press (Gale) |editor-last= Ferrara |editor-first=Miranda Herbert|date= June 2004|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019163322/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/rodarmor-william |archive-date=2020-10-19 |isbn=9781558625143}}</ref> <ref name="Publishing Perspectives 2021">{{cite web | url= https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/12/william-rodarmor-translation-of-nicolas-mathieu-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ |title=William Rodarmor's Translation of Nicolas Mathieu Wins the French 2021 Albertine Prize |first=Porter |last=Anderson | date= December 9, 2021 |work=Publishing Perspectives| publisher= | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20211210235904/https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/12/william-rodarmor-translation-of-nicolas-mathieu-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ | archivedate= 2021-12-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="University of Chicago Press">{{cite web | url= https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/R/W/au5427802.html |title= Authors – William Rodarmor | date= | publisher= University of Chicago Press | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20220706005555/https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/R/W/au5427802.html | archivedate= 2022-07-06 |url-status=live |quote=William Rodarmor is a translator of books including Claudine Cohen’s ''The Fate of the Mammal'' ['sic']: ''Fossil, Myth and History'' and Bernard Moitessier’s ''Tamata and the Alliance'', which won the 1996 Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association. }}</ref>
<ref name="frenchculture.org 2021">{{cite web | url= https://frenchculture.org/press/and-their-children-after-them-by-nicolas-mathieu-translated-by-william-rodarmor-other-press-2020-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ |title=Winner of 2021 Albertine Prize Announced | date= December 8, 2021 | publisher= French Embassy in the United States | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20231110094108/https://frenchculture.org/press/and-their-children-after-them-by-nicolas-mathieu-translated-by-william-rodarmor-other-press-2020-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ | archivedate= 2023-11-10 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Lewis Galantiere Award">{{cite web | url= https://www.atanet.org/award/lewis-galantiere-award/ |title= Lewis Galantière Award | date= | publisher= American Translators Association | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20210608213346/https://www.atanet.org/award/lewis-galantiere-award/ | archivedate=2021-06-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Albertine Jeunesse 2023">{{cite web | url= https://www.albertine.com/prix-albertine-jeunesse-2023/ |title=2023 Winnners (Albertine Jeunuesse) |first= |last= | date= | work= Villa Albertine | location= | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615215730/https://www.albertine.com/prix-albertine-jeunesse-2023/ | archivedate= 2022-06-15 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="villa-albertine.org 2023">{{cite web | url= https://villa-albertine.org/the-villa/winners-prix-albertine-jeunesse-2023/ |title=Prix Albertine Jeunesse honors four contemporary children's books in translation |first= |last= | date= June 6, 2023 | publisher= Villa Albertine | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225172737/https://villa-albertine.org/the-villa/winners-prix-albertine-jeunesse-2023/ | archivedate= 2024-02-25 |url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="frenchculture.org 2023">{{cite web | url= https://frenchculture.org/news/2023-prix-albertine-jeunesse-winners/ |title=Announcing the 2023 Prix Albertine Jeunesse Laureates! |first= |last= | date= 2023 | publisher= French Embassy in the United States | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20230930203510/https://frenchculture.org/news/2023-prix-albertine-jeunesse-winners/ | archivedate= 2023-09-30 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Publishing Perspectives 2023">{{cite web | url= https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/06/the-2023-bilingual-prix-albertine-jeunesse/ |title= The 2023 Bilingual 'Prix Albertine Jeunesse' Winners|first=Porter |last= Anderson| date= June 9, 2023 | work= Publishing Perspectives | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240229043909/https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/06/the-2023-bilingual-prix-albertine-jeunesse/ | archivedate= 2024-02-29 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name ="Cirillo 2008">{{cite journal |first1=Nancy R. |last1=Cirillo |date=2008 |title=Reviewed Work: Diasporas by Stephanie Dufoix, William Rodarmor |journal=Symplokē |volume=16 |issue=1/2 |pages=338–341 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |doi= |jstor=40550835 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/40550835 }}</ref>
<ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-B">{{cite news |title=And Their Children After Them Wins 2021 Albertine Prize |first= |last= |url=https://villa-albertine.org/news/and-their-children-after-them-nicolas-mathieu-tr-william-rodarmor-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ | work= Villa Albertine |location= |date= 2021 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221145339/https://villa-albertine.org/news/and-their-children-after-them-nicolas-mathieu-tr-william-rodarmor-wins-2021-albertine-prize/ |archivedate=2024-02-21 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="villa-albertine.org 2021-C">{{cite news |title='And Their Children After Them' by Nicolas Mathieu, translated by William Rodarmor (Other Press, 2020) Wins 2021 Albertine Prize |first= |last= |url=https://villa-albertine.org/the-villa/and-their-children-after-them-nicolas-mathieu-translated-william-rodarmor-other-press-2020-wins/ |work= Villa Albertine|date= 2021 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20220120230819/https://villa-albertine.org/the-villa/and-their-children-after-them-nicolas-mathieu-translated-william-rodarmor-other-press-2020-wins/|archivedate= 2022-01-20|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Booklist">{{cite web | url= https://www.booklistonline.com/book-awards |title= Book Awards and Media Awards|first= |work= Booklist | publisher= American Library Association | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240207031836/https://www.booklistonline.com/book-awards | archivedate=2024-02-07 |url-status=live|quote=The American Library Association, of which Booklist Online is a part, juries some of the most highly regarded book and media awards and honors in the world.}}</ref>
<ref name="ALA-Ultimate Game">{{cite web | url= https://www.ala.org/winner/ultimate-game |title=Ultimate Game | date= | publisher= American Library Association | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240521164829/https://www.ala.org/winner/ultimate-game | archivedate= 2024-05-21 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="ALA-Batchelder Award">{{cite web | url= https://www.ala.org/awards/books-media/mildred-l-batchelder-award |title= Mildred L. Batchelder Award | date= | publisher= American Library Association | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240718081903/https://www.ala.org/awards/books-media/mildred-l-batchelder-award | archivedate= 2024-07-18 |url-status=live |quote=This award, established in Mildred L. Batchelder's honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.}}</ref>
<ref name="Directory of Translators">{{cite web | url= https://villa-albertine.org/directory-of-translators/ |title= Directory of Translators – William Rodarmor |date=2023| work= Villa Albertine | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20231211003001/https://villa-albertine.org/directory-of-translators/ | archivedate= 2023-12-11 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="Swami">{{cite web | url= https://www.themysticsvision.com/uploads/1/4/0/3/140380078/the_mystics_vision-supplemental_articles.pdf |title=The Mystic's Vision: Supplemental Articles of Swami Abhayananda |first= |last= | date= | publisher= | location= | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617073923/https://www.themysticsvision.com/uploads/1/4/0/3/140380078/the_mystics_vision-supplemental_articles.pdf | archivedate=2024-06-17 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="ALAIR 2001">{{cite journal | url= https://alair.ala.org/items/c3af710f-a493-46de-8b6e-79c13801fb54 |title=American Library Association Announces Award Winners; Peck, Small Receive Newbery, Caldecott Medals |first=Larra |last=Clark | date= January 15, 2001 | journal= American Library Association Institutional Repository |publisher=American Library Association| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240825190834/https://alair.ala.org/items/c3af710f-a493-46de-8b6e-79c13801fb54 | archivedate=2024-08-25 |url-status=live|quote=Mildred L. Batchelder Award – One honor book was selected. “Ultimate Game,” was originally written by Christian Lehmann in 1996 and translated from the French by William Rodarmor. It was published by David R. Godine in 2000.}}</ref>
<ref name ="Caldwell 2001">{{cite journal |first1= Sarah|last1=Caldwell |authorlink1= |date=October 2001 |title=The Heart of the Secret: A Personal and Scholarly Encounter with Shakta Tantrism in Siddha Yoga |journal=Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions |volume= 5|issue=1 |pages=9–51 |publisher=University of California Press |doi= 10.1525/nr.2001.5.1.9|jstor=10.1525/nr.2001.5.1.9 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2001.5.1.9 |accessdate= August 26, 2018 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
<ref name ="Teacher Librarian 2001">{{cite journal |date= April 2001|title=The Best, Notable & Recommended for 2001 |journal=Teacher Librarian |volume= 28|issue=4 |pages= |issn=1481-1782 |doi= |url= |quote=One honor book was selected. ''Ultimate Game'', was originally written by Christian Lehmann in 1996 and translated from the French by William Rodarmor. It was published by David R. Godine in 2000. The award is administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC). }}</ref>
<ref name ="St. Petersburg Review 6">{{cite magazine |last= |first= |date=2013 |page=354 |title= William Rodarmor |url= |magazine=St. Petersburg Review |issue= 6 |publisher= |access-date=|isbn=978-0-9795086-0-8|issn=1935-9918}}</ref>
<ref name="Berkeleyside 2010">{{cite news |title=Berkeleyan wins New Yorker cartoon caption contest |first=Frances |last=Dinkelspiel |authorlink=Frances Dinkelspiel |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2010/07/30/berkeleyan-wins-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest |newspaper= Berkeleyside |location=Berkeley, California |date= July 30, 201 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208205219/https://www.berkeleyside.org/2010/07/30/berkeleyan-wins-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest |archivedate=2022-12-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Bridenne 2021">{{cite web | url= https://www.albertine.com/william-rodarmor-on-2021-albertine-prize-finalist-and-their-children-after-them/ |title= William Rodarmor on 2021 Albertine Prize Finalist 'And Their Children After Them'|first=Miriam |last=Bridenne | date= November 9, 2021 | publisher= Albertine Books | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827043901/https://www.albertine.com/william-rodarmor-on-2021-albertine-prize-finalist-and-their-children-after-them/ | archivedate=2024-08-27 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="WSJ 2014">{{cite news |title=Book Review: 'The Madmen of Benghazi' by Gérard de Villiers – A sex-packed soap opera full of hard-headed political realism |first=Edward N. |last=Luttwak |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-madmen-of-benghazi-by-gerard-de-villiers-1407536490 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |location= |date= August 8, 2014 |page=11 |url-access=subscription |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= As a writer de Villiers had a serious shortcoming: The man could not write. (...) Indeed his French prose is so mechanical, so flat and so replete with Franglais. (...) William Rodarmor's English translation of ''Madmen'' is actually better than the original.}}</ref>
<ref name="Scherman 1995">{{cite web | url= https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1995/12/1/required-reading |title= Required Reading|first=William |last=Scherman | date= December 1995|work=Dartmouth Alumni Magazine | publisher= Dartmouth College | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827052440/https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1995/12/1/required-reading | archivedate=2024-08-27 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="UC Berkeley News 1996">{{cite web | url= https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1996/0925/awards.html |title=Awards and Honors|first= |last= | date= September 25, 1996 |work=newsarchive.berkeley.edu | publisher= UC Berkeley | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827052440/https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1996/0925/awards.html | archivedate= 2024-08-27 |url-status=live|quote=Journalist and translator William Rodarmor has won the American Translators Association's top award for his translation of "Tamata and the Alliance" (Sheridan House), an autobiography by the French sailor Bernard Moitessier.}}</ref>
<ref name="Markowitz 2001">{{cite web | url= https://www.editorsforum.org/forum_index_articles/work_support_04-17-01.php |title=How to Survive the Dot-Com Meltdown |first=Rachel |last=Markowitz | date= April 17, 2001 | work= Bay Area Editors' Forum | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827052441/https://www.editorsforum.org/forum_index_articles/work_support_04-17-01.php | archivedate= 2024-08-27 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Penguin Random House">{{cite web | url= https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/224834/william-rodarmor/ |title=William Rodarmor – About the Author |first= |last= | date= | publisher= Penguin Random House | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240831213745/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/224834/william-rodarmor/ | archivedate= 2024-08-31 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2023">{{cite web | url= https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/william_rodarmor/ |title= William Rodarmor |first= |last= | date=2023 | work= UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240827052443/https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/william_rodarmor/ | archivedate= 2024-08-27 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="UC School of Journalism 2024">{{cite web | url= https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/william_rodarmor/ |title= William Rodarmor (updated 2024) |first= |last= | date= 2024 | work= UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | location= | archiveurl= | archivedate= }}</ref>
<ref name="Armstrong 2021">{{cite web | url= https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-post-existential-chronicle-of-post-industrial-france-on-nicolas-mathieus-and-their-children-after-them/ |title=A Post-Existential Chronicle of Post-Industrial France: On Nicolas Mathieu's "And Their Children After Them" – A review of "And Their Children After Them," a novel by Nicolas Mathieu translated by William Rodarmor. |first=Joshua |last= Armstrong| date= April 30, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Review of Books | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240802140532/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-post-existential-chronicle-of-post-industrial-france-on-nicolas-mathieus-and-their-children-after-them/ | archivedate= 2024-08-02 |url-status=live |quote=Veteran translator William Rodarmor does a good job capturing this tone, deftly transposing the slangy French dialogue into its 1990s English equivalent: “We’re bored, like big time,” “Wait for me, for chrissakes!,” “A real douche,” are some of Anthony’s lines. (...)In another instance, Anthony is cruising along the roads of the valley on a motorbike, feeling “[t]hat imprint that the valley had left on his flesh. The terrible sweetness of belonging.” I suspect it must have been a difficult decision for Rodarmor when it came to translating this sentence. The original French, ''l’effroyable douceur'', could also have been translated as the horrible, the dreadful, or perhaps even the appalling sweetness (or comfort) of belonging. However translated, it succinctly expresses all the ambivalence of belonging. Ultimately, this sentence crystalizes the delicate balancing act Nicolas Mathieu pulls off more generally in ''And Their Children After Them'' —a novel that is delightfully detached and disabused, and yet knows when to let down its guard and be moving.}}</ref>
<ref name="Tonkin 2000">{{cite news |title= And Their Children After Them — life in France's wastelands |first=Boyd |last=Tonkin |authorlink=Boyd Tonkin |url=https://www.ft.com/content/461eb12c-74e9-11ea-90ce-5fb6c07a27f2 |newspaper=Financial Times |location= |date= Apr 17, 2020 |url-access=subscription |archiveurl= |archivedate= }}</ref>
<ref name="O'keeffe 2020">{{cite news |title= Marginal notes – Attempting escape from the 'congenital disease of daily routine' in Nicolas Mathieu's And Their Children After Them|first=Esmé |last=O'keeffe |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/fiction/and-their-children-after-them-nicolas-mathieu-review-esme-okeeffe |newspaper=The Times Literary Supplement |location= |date= June 26, 2020 |url-access=subscription |archiveurl= |archivedate= }}</ref>
<ref name="Eathorne 2020">{{cite web | url= https://www.booklistonline.com/And-Their-Children-After-Them-Nicolas-Mathieu/pid=9728718 |title=And Their Children After Them – Nicolas Mathieu |first=Courtney |last= Eathorne| date= 2020|work=Booklist | publisher= American Library Association | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240831232656/https://www.booklistonline.com/And-Their-Children-After-Them-Nicolas-Mathieu/pid=9728718| archivedate= 2024-08-31 |url-status=live |quote=Rodarmor’s translation is sure to please English language readers of Mathieu’s Prix Goncourt–winning novel.}}</ref>
<ref name="Thomas Chatterton Williams 2020">{{cite news |title=When White Working-Class Fury Came of Age |first=Thomas Chatterton |last= Williams |authorlink=Thomas Chatterton Williams|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/review/nicolas-mathieu-their-children-after-them.html |newspaper= |location= |date= April 7, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407093047/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/books/review/nicolas-mathieu-their-children-after-them.html |archivedate=2020-04-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="Small 1993">{{cite news |title=Children's Books; Gentle Giants |first=David |last= Small |authorlink=David Small|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/14/books/children-s-books-gentle-giants.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location= |date=November 14, 1993 |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150526091855/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/14/books/children-s-books-gentle-giants.html|archivedate=2015-05-26 |url-status=dead|quote=In prose that remains elegant in William Rodarmor's translation from the French}}</ref>
<ref name="Tattersall 2002">{{cite journal |title= Everything Must Go|first=Ian |last=Tattersall |author-link=Ian Tattersall| date= August 2, 2002 | journal= Times Literary Supplement |issue=5183|page=3 }}</ref>
<ref name="Gaffney 1994">{{cite news |title=AIDS and Degradation |first=Elizabeth |last=Gaffney |authorlink=Elizabeth Gaffney |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/aids-and-degradation.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location= |date= January 23, 1994 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240311143320/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/23/books/aids-and-degradation.html |archivedate= 2024-03-11|url-status=live|quote=generally smooth English translation}}</ref>
<ref name ="Van Riper 2024">{{cite journal |first1= A. Bowdoin |last1= Van Riper |date= March 2004|title= The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History by Claudine Cohen and William Rodarmor|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages= 107–108|publisher=Cambridge University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science |doi= |jstor= 4028265 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/4028265 |quote=The translation, by William Rodarmor, reads smoothly and introduces only occasional infelicities. Making Richard Owen president of the 'British Association of Leeds', rather than of the British Association for the Advancement of Science when it met in Leeds (p. 128), is as serious as these minor problems get.}}</ref>
<ref name ="Harris 1994">{{cite magazine |last= Harris|first=Lis |authorlink=Lis Harris |date=November 14, 1994 |page=92|title= O Guru, Guru, Guru|magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/11/14/o-guru-guru-guru |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
<ref name ="Pow!">{{cite book |last=Rodarmor|first=William |editor-last1=|editor-first1= |editor-last2=|editor-first2= | title=Pow! Right in the Eye!|publisher=Wiley |location=|date=2022|pages= |chapter=Translator's Note – Wrestling with Weill |doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226814537-002 |doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |isbn=9780470443842 |url=https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226814537-002}}</ref>
<ref name="Kirkus 2024">{{cite web | url= https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/william-rodarmor/ |title=Books by William Rodarmor | date= 2024 | publisher= Kirkus Reviews | location= | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240831232655/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/william-rodarmor/ | archivedate= 2024-08-31 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name ="Cronin 1975">{{cite book |first1=Michael W. |last1=Cronin |first2=Roy |last2=Graybill |title=Tips on Using the Interpretation Training Package |url=https://npshistory.com/publications/interpretation/interp-training-tips.pdf|page=38 |date=1975 |publisher= U.S. National Park Service | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20190117220337/https://npshistory.com/publications/interpretation/interp-training-tips.pdf | archivedate= 2019-01-17 |url-status=live |quote=William [Rodarmor] is a seasonal interpreter at Mount McKinley.}}</ref>
<ref name ="Miller 1976"> {{cite aaj |first1= Jack |last1=Miller |date=1976|title=Sea-Going Climbers in Southern Chile |volume=20 |issue=2 |page=380|article_id=12197638000|access-date=2025-01-14 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240907052055/https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12197638000/Sea-Going-Climbers-in-Southern-Chile | archive-date= 2024-09-07 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="Geiger Winter 1993">{{cite web | url= https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/12/1/1966 |title=Class Notes – 1966 |first=Larry |last=Geiger | date= Winter 1993 | publisher= Dartmouth College | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240907053810/https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/12/1/1966 | archivedate= 2024-09-07 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Dartmouth 1993">{{cite web | url= https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/6/1/give-a-rouse|title=Give a Rouse |first= |last= | date= June 1993 | publisher= Dartmouth College | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240907054032/https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/6/1/give-a-rouse | archivedate= 2024-09-07 |url-status=live|quote=William Rodarmor '66, managing editor of California Monthly, awarded the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's gold medal for Best Article of the Year}}</ref>
<ref name="Geiger September 1993">{{cite web | url= https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/9/1/1966 |title= Class Notes – 1966 |first= Larry|last=Geiger | date=September 1993| publisher= Dartmouth College | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20240907054509/https://archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1993/9/1/1966 | archivedate= 2024-09-07 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="French Feast 2011">{{cite book |editor1-first=William |editor1-last= Rodarmor |title=French Feast: A Traveler's Literary Companion |url= |accessdate= |date=2011 |publisher=Whereabouts Press |location=United States |isbn=9780982785218 |page=xi-xii }}</ref>
<ref name="McBride/Rodarmor 1984">{{cite journal |first1=Melville |last1=McBride |last2=Rodarmor|first2=William |date= Spring 1984|title= So-called investigation|journal=CoEvolution Quarterly |volume= |issue= |pages=128 |doi= |url= }}</ref>
<ref name="Yollin 1985">{{cite news |title=Trapping the wild Bay Area journalist between covers |first=Patricia |last=Yollin |url=https://sfexaminer.newspapers.com/image/461123409/?match=1&terms=rodarmor |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |url-access=subscription |date= March 6, 1985 |pages=116/69 |quote= William Rodarmor has been a French translator and a personal-injury lawyer. He has climbed mountains, sailed solo from Tahiti to Hawaii and been a 'low-rent spy' on the Russians while an Army linguist in Germany. But his latest endeavor could be the most quixotic yet: tracking down 500 Bay Area journalists. The result is a one-of-a-kind book: 'People Behind the News: Media Alliance's 1985 Guide to Accessible Bay Area Journalists'}}</ref>
<ref name="BBC 2013">{{cite news |title=French spy writer Gérard de Villiers dies aged 83 |first= |last= |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24775792|newspaper= BBC|location= |date= November 1, 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331091328/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24775792 |archivedate=2022-03-31 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="rtbookreviews">{{cite news |title=Best Gérard de Villiers Books (Top Spy Thrillers) |first=Eddison |last=Monroe |url=https://rtbookreviews.com/best-gerard-de-villiers-books/ |website=rtbookreviews.com |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527225256/https://rtbookreviews.com/best-gerard-de-villiers-books/ |archivedate= 2023-05-27|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name ="The Chaucer Review 2003">{{cite journal |date=2003 |title=Robert Worth Frank, Jr., April 8, 1914-January 26, 2003 |journal=The Chaucer Review |volume= 37|issue=3 |pages=195 |publisher=Penn State University Press |doi= 10.1353/cr.2003.0003|jstor=25096204 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25096204 |accessdate= August 26, 2018 |last1=Hamel |first1=Mary |last2=Krochalis |first2=Jeanne |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
<ref name ="NCTA 2018">{{cite web |url=https://ncta.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Wm-Rodarmor-translator-CV-2018.doc |title=Resume |last= |first= |date=2018 |work=Northern California Translators Association |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240825000856/https://ncta.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/6/Wm-Rodarmor-translator-CV-2018.doc |archive-date=2024-08-25 |quote=}}</ref>
<ref name="PEN Translates 2024">{{cite news |url= https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-winners-announced-5/|title=PEN Translates winners announced |last= |first= |date= July 18, 2024 |work= English PEN |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240718091913/https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/pen-translates-winners-announced-5/|archive-date= 2024-07-18 |quote=}}</ref>
<ref name=" PEN Translates-About the award">{{cite web |url= https://www.englishpen.org/translation/pen-translates/|title= PEN Translates – Awarding the best contemporary literature in translation – About the award |last= |first= |date= |work= English PEN|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240301164336/https://www.englishpen.org/translation/pen-translates/ |archive-date= 2024-03-01|quote=}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|William Rodarmor}} {{Wikiquote|William Rodarmor}} *[https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/william_rodarmor/ Profile of Rodarmor] at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism *[https://archive.org/details/books?tab=collection&query=%22Rodarmor%2C+William%22 List of Rodarmor's books] available at the Internet Archive *[https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/william-rodarmor/ List of Rodarmor's books] by Kirkus Reviews *[https://openlibrary.org/search?q=%22william+rodarmor%22&mode=everything List of Rodarmor's books] in the Open Library
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