Denver Lindley (1904-1982) was an American

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''trans ...

noted for his translations of works by

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...

, Ernst Schnabel,

André Maurois André Maurois (; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Biography Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, both in Normandy. A member of ...

, and others. Lindley studied at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

and joined ''

Collier's } ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...

'' magazine as an editor in 1927.

Works Translated

* ''A Time to Love and a Time to Die'' (''Translation of Zeit zu Leben und Zeit Zu Sterben'' by

Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (; ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist. His landmark novel '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War ...

) * ''Arch of Triumph'' (Translation of ''Arc de Triomphe'' by

) * ''Flotsam'' (Translation of ''Liebe Deinen Nächsten'' by

) * ''The Black Obelisk'' (Translation of ''Der schwarze Obelisk'' by

) * The Boat (Translation of ''Das Boot'' by

Lothar-Günther Buchheim Lothar-Günther Buchheim () (6 February 1918 – 22 February 2007) was a German author, painter, and wartime journalist under the Nazi regime. In World War II he served as a war correspondent aboard ships and U-boats. He is best known for his 19 ...

) * ''The History of Jesus Christ'' Author, R. L. ( Raymond Leopold) Bruckberger, The Viking Press, 1965. * ''The Springtime of Life,'' Doubleday and Company, 1974. (Translation of Jean Dutourd, ''Le Printemps de la vie'', Flammarion, 1972.)

References

Denver Lindley, Editor, Dies; Translator of Mann, Maurois
NYT, February 15, 1982. 1904 births 1982 deaths German–English translators 20th-century American translators {{US-translator-stub