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Barbara Perkins Gamow
Barbara Merrihew Perkins "Perky" Gamow (May 22, 1905 - December 1975) was an American publicist, editor and translator. Biography Barbara Merrihew Perkins was born in San Francisco, California, on May 22, 1905. In 1938, she married J. R. de la Torre Bueno, scholar and editor, and divorced around 1943. She mainly worked in the publishing business. From 1950 to 1958, she was a publicity manager for the Cambridge University Press. In 1958, she married George Gamow. From 1958 to 1970, Barbara Gamow served as the editor and translator of her husband. She also wrote verse for some of her husband's books, including ''Faust; Eine Historie''. Her circle of friends included E. E. Cummings and his wife Marion Morehouse, Edward Niles Hooker, Albert J. Guerard, Albert Guerard, Stan Brakhage, John Larson, Evelyn Hooker, Bernard Friedlander, Raymong Peckham Holden, James Broughton, Charles Norman (author), Charles Norman, Eda Lord, Sybille Bedford, Garner James, and Morgan Shepard. She died i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
