Chester (Simon) Kallman

Poet and librettist, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at Brooklyn College (BA) and at the University of Michigan. He was praised for his volumes of poetry, such as Absent and Present (1963), but is best known for writing the libretto for Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress (1951), in collaboration with W H Auden.

Chester Kallman (7 January 1921 – 18 January 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for his collaborations with Igor Stravinsky. Auden, Kallman wrote the libretto for Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress; they also worked together on two librettos for Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids, and on a number of libretto translations. Kallman also translated the libretto of The Tuscan Players for Chávez, Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea , and Verdi's Falstaff.