Helen Caldwell

Helen Caldwell is a scholar and Brazilianist from California. Her work focuses on the 19th century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. She completed the first English translation of Dom Casmurro, published in 1953.^[1] Her most famous work is Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). She also translated of 8 the 12 stories in The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories^[2] (with William L. Grossman for the eponymous novella and three other stories) in 1973.

References

1. K. David Jackson (22 February 1998). "Madness in a Tropical Manner". New York Times. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
2. Table of contents at Google Books