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Helen Wolff was born on 27 July, 1906 in Ottoman Empire, is an American editor and publisher (1906–1994). Discover Helen Wolff's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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Age 88 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 27 July, 1906
Birthday 27 July
Birthplace Ottoman Empire
Date of death 1994
Died Place Hanover
Nationality Ottoman Empire

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1906

Helen Wolff (27 July 1906 – 28 March 1994) was an American editor and publisher.

Helen Mosel was born to a German father and a Hungarian/Austrian mother in Macedonia, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in 1906.

The family spoke German, Turkish and Serbian.

They spent time living in Üsküb.

Wolff attended boarding schools in Vienna and learned English.

She discovered her gift for languages.

1927

In 1927, Wolff worked in Munich where she went from trainee to being in charge of art books for Kurt Wolff Press.

The Pantheon imprint where she worked was sold to a Parisian company, and Wolff went there as part of the deal.

The Nazis closed the publishing house and the family fled to the United States via Italy and France.

1933

In 1933, she married Kurt Wolff in London and their son, composer Christian Wolff, was born in 1934 in Nice.

Kurt Wolff had two previous children from his first marriage.

1941

They arrived in New York in 1941 almost penniless.

1942

They founded a new imprint of Pantheon Books in 1942.

1959

In 1959 Wolff moved to Locarno with her husband.

1961

The Pantheon line became an imprint of Random House and in 1961 they established the A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book imprint at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Wolff had an advantage when selecting books from Europe, she could attend the Frankfurt book fair and read the book in German, French, Italian or Turkish, getting an advantage over other publishers.

1963

Kurt Wolff was killed in a traffic accident on his way to a meeting in 1963.

1981

Wolff was awarded the Inter Nationes Award for Literature and the Arts by the West German Government in 1981 as well as the Goethe Medal in 1985.

1986

Wolff continued running the imprint until she retired in 1986.

The imprint continued after she left.

1994

Wolff died in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1994.

They published a number of notable works including Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Georges Simenon, Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From the Sea.

Wolff never published any of her own work.

She wrote, but believed a publisher shouldn't publish.

2020

However, after her death, her novel Hintergrund für Liebe was published in 2020.