This article seeks to outline my intellectual path from the launch of the Canadian Association for Translation Studies to the present, a development that in many ways reflects the evolution of the emerging discipline itself. Since my first article in TTR on translators and writers, I have always maintained an interest in the translator. This resulted in a history of translators, followed by studies on eminent writer-translators. Included in this articles are mini-portraits of some of the authors I have examined—Paul Valéry, Bernard Shaw, Gertrude Stein, and Paul Auster principally—illustrating their motivation to translate and the various ways in which they conceptualize translation and manipulate the translation process.