Strelsky, Katharine.

Editor, translator, researcher Katharine Anderson Strelsky (1897-1993) was born in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Willis P. and Maud Harrington Anderson. She graduated from the University of Rochester (A.B. 1922) and studied at Radcliffe College (1922-1923) and Columbia University (1935). From 1924 to 1930 she lived in Saranac Lake, New York, where she was treated for tuberculosis. In 1928 she married Nikander Strelsky, also a former patient. Nikander Strelsky taught Russian at Vassar College beginning in 1930; he died in 1946. Following his death, Katharine Strelsky lived in Italy, Paris, and London, working as a free-lance writer, translator, and English coach for film and stage. Returning to the United States in 1953, she worked as assistant editor for the journals Isis and Daedelus. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute (1963-1965), where she worked on a study of Dostoevsky entitled An Obsolete Image of Goodness, an analysis of his novel The Idiot. She pubilshed numerous translations of works in French, Italian, and Russian.