Short answers, pulled from the story.
Francis George Steiner was born on the 23rd of April 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris. He grew up in France after his father moved the family from Austria to escape anti-Semitism five years before his birth.
George Steiner survived the war as one of only two Jewish children in his school class while the Nazis occupied Paris. His family fled to New York in 1940 just before the German invasion, and this experience made him feel like a survivor who profoundly influenced his later writings about death and the Holocaust.
George Steiner became a founding fellow of Churchill College Cambridge in 1961 but was never appointed as a full professor with the right to examine students. He held various posts including the Gauss Lecturer at Princeton and taught in four languages at the University of Geneva for twenty years starting in 1974.
After Babel published in 1975 serves as an early and influential contribution to the field of translation studies by exploring art and thought unbounded by national frontiers or academic disciplines. The work advocates generalisation over specialisation and insists that literacy must encompass knowledge of both arts and sciences.
David Steiner and Deborah Steiner are the children of George Steiner and Zara Shakow whom he married in 1955. Their son David served as New York State Commissioner of Education from 2009 to 2011 while their daughter Deborah became Professor of Classics at Columbia University.