"We met in Paris" : Grace Frick and her life with Marguerite Yourcenar / by Joan E Howard.

• "The distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is known to English-language readers all over the world thanks to the compelling translations of a native Missourian, Grace Marian Frick. Frick, raised by a prominent Kansas City family, was a doctoral student in English literature at Yale University in 1937 when she met Yourcenar by chance in Paris. From the first, she saw Yourcenar's genius. A woman of incredible energy and determination, Frick devoted the rest of her life to fostering it, becoming not only Yourcenar's American translator, but was also her creative collaborator and life partner"-- 

Ämnesord

Franska kvinnliga författare  (sao)

Kvinnliga översättare  (sao)

Authors, French  -- 20th century -- Biography. (LCSH)

Women translators  -- Missouri -- Biography. (LCSH)

Women  -- France -- Paris -- Biography. (LCSH)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.  (bisacsh)

Authors, French.  (fast)

Friendship.  (fast)

Women.  (fast)

Women translators.  (fast)

Women authors, French  (lcsh)

Women translators  (lcsh)

Frankrike  -- Paris (sao)

Missouri 

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Biography.  (fast)

Personnamn

Yourcenar, Marguerite, 1903-1987 -- Friends and associates.

Frick, Grace.

Frick, Grace.

Yourcenar, Marguerite, 1903-1987

Klassifikation

PQ2649.O8 (LCC)

848/.91209 (DDC)

BIO007000 (bisacsh)