Carol Cosman 

Carol Cosman (1943-2020) translated a wide variety of French works ranging from fiction, biography, and memoirs to literary criticism, history, philosophy, and anthropology.

 

Among the many books she did are Emile Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Simone de Beauvoir's America Day by Day, Albert Camus's Exile and the Kingdom, Marthe Robert's The Old and the New: from Don Quixote to Kafka, Honoré de Balzac's The Girl with the Golden Eyes, and Jean Paul Sartre's 3,000-page work, The Family Idiot. She lived in Berkeley, California and was the mother of two sons and married to the literary scholar Robert Alter.