Helen Wolff

Helen Wolff (1906–1994) was a deeply influential publisher and editor who, alongside her husband Kurt Wolff, founded Pantheon Books in New York in 1942 after emigrating from Nazi-ruled Europe. Fluent in multiple European languages, she championed translated works by authors like Pasternak, Calvino, Eco, Simenon, and Grass—often introducing them to English-language readers for the first […]