Helen Caldwell (July 9, 1904 – April 12, 1987) was a scholar and

Brazilianist Brazilianist (''brasilianista'', in Brazilian Portuguese) is a scholar, either a non-Brazilian or a Brazilian living abroad, who teaches, conducts research, and publishes about Brazil. Common fields and disciplines are history, anthropology, sociolo ...

from California. Her work focuses on the 19th century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. She completed the first English translation of ''

Dom Casmurro ''Dom Casmurro'' is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like ''The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas'' and ''Quincas Borba'', both by Machado de Assis, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of realist litera ...

'', published in 1953. Her most famous work is ''Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels'' (University of California, Los Angeles, 1970). She also translated 8 of the 12 stories in '' The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories'' (with William L. Grossman for the eponymous novella and three other stories) in 1973.

Works

* . * Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His Novels

References

American women poets Brazilianists 20th-century American poets Writers from California 20th-century American women writers 1904 births 1987 deaths 20th-century American translators {{US-poet-1900s-stub