Helen Weaver

Helen Weaver (born 1931, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American writer and translator. She has translated over fifty books from French. Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (Farrar, Straus and Giroux ) was a Finalist for the National Book Award in translation in 1976. She is co-author and general editor of the Larousse Enyclopedia of Astrology and author of The Daisy Sutra, a book on animal communication. She recently wrote a memoir entitled The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties (City Lights, 2009) ISBN 978-0-87286-505-1.^[1]

Biography

Helen Weaver grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Warren Weaver, was a distinguished scientist, author, and world traveler who was Director of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation for twenty-seven years. Her mother, Mary Hemenway Weaver, taught Latin and ancient history and her brother, Warren Weaver, Jr., was a political reporter on the Washington bureau of The New York Times.^[2]

Education

Weaver graduated magna cum laude from Oberlin College with a B.A. in English Literature in 1952.

Translations

• A Sentient Animal, Robert Merle (1967, translated 1969, as The Day of the Dolphin, the basis for the film of the same name)
• L'Opoponax, Monique Wittig (1964, translated 1966)

References

External links

• Helen Weaver's website
• Interview with Helen Weaver at Beatdom
• Description, reviews and purchasing information for The Awakener