Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter
Lowe-Porter in 1920
Born
Helen Tracy Porter

June 15, 1876
DiedApril 26, 1963(1963-04-26) (aged 86)
EducationWells College, Class of 1898[1]
Known forTranslator of Thomas Mann
SpouseElias Avery Lowe
Children3
RelativesJames Fawcett (son in-law)
Charlotte Johnson Wahl (granddaughter)
Edmund Fawcett (grandson)
Boris, Rachel & Jo Johnson (great grandchildren)

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (née Porter; June 15, 1876 – April 26, 1963)[2] was an American translator and writer, best known for translating almost all of the works of Thomas Mann for their first publication in English.[3]

  1. ^ Lewis, Jayne E.; et al. (The Women's Project of New Jersey Incorporated) (1997). "Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, 1876–1963". Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women. Syracuse University Press. pp. 346–347. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1.
  2. ^ pp. 428-429, Notable American Women: The Modern Period: a Biographical Dictionary, Barbara Sicherman, Carol Hurd Green, Harvard University Press, 1980; ISBN 0674627334.
  3. ^ Robertson, Ritchie (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann. Cambridge University Press. pp. 235–47. ISBN 0-521-65370-3.