Robert Bononno, 1949-, works as a freelance translator of French works. He resides in New York City, where he has taught technical translation in the Foreign Language Department at New York University and terminology and translation at the City University of New York. He has produced literary translations of Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Lévy, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss and also specializes in technical translation of intellectual property documents. He received the National Endowment for the Arts grant to translate the works of French traveler and writer Isabelle Eberhardt in 2002 and French novelist Eugène Sue's The Mysteries of Paris in 2011. Additionally, Bononno is a photographer whose works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque Nationale.