Name Helen Weaver Role Writer | Parents Warren Weaver Education Oberlin College | |
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Books The Awakener: A Memoir of Jack Kerouac and the Fifties, The Daisy Sutra: Conversations with My Dog Similar People Susan Sontag, Antonin Artaud, Warren 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 was a Finalist for the National Book Award in translation in 1977.
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Weaver is the general editor, a contributor and a translator for the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology (1980). In 2001 she published The Daisy Sutra, a book on animal communication. 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; his best known work is likely the novel On the Road (1957). 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."
Biography
Helen Weaver grew up in Scarsdale, New York. Her father, Warren Weaver, was a 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. Weaver graduated magna cum laude from Oberlin College with a B.A. in English Literature in 1952. Her brother, Warren Weaver, Jr., was a political reporter on the Washington bureau of The New York Times.