May 11, 1919 [Gilmore City, Iowa] – February 24, 1989 [New York City, New York]
Daniels was born in Gilmore City, Iowa, attended high school in Redlands, California, and graduated from the University of Iowa. He was briefly part of the Thomas McGrath circle in the 1950s. Poems appeared in The Nation, The National Review and The Kenyon Review. Daniels had published more than 40 translations, from Russian and French into English, including The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Racine and Shakespeare by Stendahl. He specialized in Soviet literature of dissent and translated My Country and the World by Andrei D. Sakharov.
