Toby Talbot Translator, Editor & Author

Daniel Talbot (1926–2017) founded and ran the New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro Theater, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas as well as the distribution company New Yorker Films. Born in the Bronx, he was an Upper West Sider for almost sixty years.

Toby Talbot is the author of A Book About My Mother (1980) and The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies (Columbia, 2009). She has taught Spanish and Latin American literature at Columbia and New York University and documentary film at the New School, and has translated numerous works from Spanish, including Jacobo Timerman’s Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.