Robert Sage, journalist, editor, and translator, worked in the Paris,Vienna, Rome, and London offices of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald for most of his life; from September 1927 to June 1929 he was also an editor for transition, the important little magazine founded by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul in 1927. A fine literary critic, Sage contributed to the success of transition and its mission to disseminate some of the best experimental prose and verse being written during the late twenties and early thirties.

Sage was born in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1922. After working for the Detroit Times for a year, he left for Paris where he began his association with the European edition of the Chicago Tribune, often called the Paris Tribune. Here he met Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul, fellow Americans also working for the Tribune. When Jolas and...