KATÓ LOMB (1909–2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages was first published in 1970. A collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning, it belongs to a select group of similar texts by polyglot linguists such as Bloomfield, Pei, and Stevick.