Joseph Auslander was the first person to serve as Poet Consultant at the Library of Congress and the longest serving (from 1937 to 1941). Auslander published six volumes of poems; his best known is The Unconquerables (1943), poems addressed to the war-torn, German-occupied countries of Europe. Auslander attended Harvard University and the Sorbonne in Paris, taught at Columbia University and served as the poetry editor for the North American Review and The Measure. He translated poems from Italian and French.
