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Helen Weaver
American writer and translator (1931–2021)
Helen Weaver (June 18, 1931 – April 13, 2021)[1] was an American writer and translator. She translated over fifty books from French. Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings was a Finalist for the National Book Award in translation in 1977.[2][3]
Weaver was the general editor, a contributor and a translator for the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology (1980).[4] In 2001 she published The Daisy Sutra, a book on animal communication.[5] In 2009 Weaver published The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties. Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) was a prominent writer and poet of the Beat Generation. In her review in The New York Times, Tara McKelvey wrote "Kerouac’s soul lives on through many people — Joyce Johnson, for one — but few have been as adept as Weaver at capturing both him and the New York bohemia of the time. He was lucky to have met her."[6][7][8]