Lowe-Porter, H. T.

Lowe-Porter, H. T. (b. Helen Tracy Porter)

(1876–1963) translator; born in Towanda, Pa. (niece of Charlotte Endymion Porter). She became internationally recognized for translating all of Thomas Mann's works from Buddenbrooks (1924) onward, usually in close collaboration with Mann. In 1911 she married the paleographer E. A. Lowe; they lived in Oxford, England, and after 1937 in Princeton, N.J.