Varèse, Louise, 1890-1989
Variant namesTranslator; Biographer. Louise Varèse was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1890, daughter of John Lindsay McCutcheon and Mary Louise Taylor. She attended Smith College (class of 1912), leaving in the fall of 1911 to marry Allen Norton. A son, Michael, was born in 1912. She was separated from Norton in 1916, and they were divorced in 1920. In 1922 she married composer Edgard Varèse. Throughout her life she translated works of French authors and poets into English, including Rimbaud, Proust, Sartre, Stendahl, and Simenon, among many others and was awarded Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France in 1969. She also wrote articles, stories, and poems. Following the death of Edgard Varèse in 1965, she published Varese, A Looking-Glass Diary, Volume I, 1893-1928 (1972). Volume 2 was in progress when she died on July 1, 1989.
From the description of Louise Varèse Papers, 1910-1983. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 141200356
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Birth 1890-11-22
Death 1989-08-01
Birth 1890
Active 1929
Active 1998
Americans
English
