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Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of ''transition'' in Paris with her husband
Edwin McDowell, 7 March 1987, New York Times, Retrieved 2 August 2016 but became closely associated with European culture. Jolas and her husband had two daughters, including the composer
Maria Jolas (January 12, 1893 – March 4, 1987), born Maria McDonald, was one of the founding members of ''transition'' in Paris with her husband Eugene Jolas
John George Eugène Jolas (October 26, 1894 – May 26, 1952) was a writer, translator and literary critic.
Early life
John George Eugène Jolas was born October 26, 1894, in Union Hill, New Jersey (what is today Union City, New Jersey). His par ...
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Life
Jolas was born in Louisville, Kentucky,Maria Jolas, 94, A translator and Paris Magazine FounderEdwin McDowell, 7 March 1987, New York Times, Retrieved 2 August 2016 but became closely associated with European culture. Jolas and her husband had two daughters, including the composer
Betsy Jolas
Elizabeth Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a Franco-American composer.
Biography
Jolas was born in Paris in 1926. Her mother, the American translator Maria McDonald, was a singer. Her father, the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas, founded and edited ...
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A well-known figure at peace conferences, Maria Jolas was active in Europe in opposing the U.S. war in Vietnam 1965-75. Maria Jolas was the chair/president of the Paris American Committee to Stop-War (PACS, pronounced PACS) with several hundred members, formed in 1965 and banned by the French government in September 1968. She also translated many works, including Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and '' epi ...
's ''The Poetics of Space
''The Poetics of Space'' (french: La Poétique de l'Espace) is a 1958 book about architecture by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The book is considered an important work about art. Commentators have compared Bachelard's views to those of ...
''. She died, aged 94, in Paris, France.
''Maria Jolas, Woman of Action - A Memoir and Other Writings
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
'' was edited and introduced in 2004 by City University of New York
The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...
professor Mary Ann Caws
Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, translator, art historian and literary critic.
She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and ...
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References
External links
* Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. * Eugène and Maria Jolas Papers: Addition. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jolas, Maria 1893 births 1987 deaths American magazine publishers (people) American expatriates in France Writers from Louisville, Kentucky Kentucky women writers 20th-century American women