Helen Weaver
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Helen Weaver 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 9780872865051.
, 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.
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Lebris de Kerouac was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic...
and the Fifties (City Lights, 2009) ISBN 9780872865051.
Biography
Helen Weaver grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Warren WeaverWarren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator...
, 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.