The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator

Before she could sign on to translate the entirety of Thomas Mann, the giant of German letters, into English, Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter had to translate herself. An American married to a rising paleography scholar at Oxford, Lowe-Porter was raising three daughters and helping make ends meet with…

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