Daniel Levin Becker is a critic, editor and translator from Chicago. In 2009, he became the youngest member of the French literary collective Oulipo, which was the subject of his first book, Many Subtle Channels. His published translations include Georges Perec's La Boutique Obscure, An Ideal Presence by Eduardo Berti and Serge Haroche's The Science of Light. Levin Becker is a founding editor of Fern Books, English editor for the French nonfiction publisher Odile Jacob, senior editor at McSweeney's Publishing and a longtime contributing editor to The Believer. He lives in Paris.