Helen Weaver

HELEN WEAVER is a writer, translator, and astrologer who has rendered some fifty books from the French. Her translation of the Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1977. She is general editor and co-author of The Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology and author of The Daisy Sutra: Conversations with my Dog.

Her new book The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties will be published November 1, 2009 by City Lights Books.

Weaver lives in Woodstock, New York, where she is at work on Translation of Light, a book about her scientist father, Warren Weaver,and their dialogue about astrology. She can be reached at helenweaver@earthlink.net. Her website is www.helenweaver.com