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Seaver, Richard

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Personal name headingSeaver, Richard
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See alsoEstrée, Sabine d'
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Birth date19261231
Death date20090105
Found inSade, marquis de. 120 days of Sodom, 1987, c1966: CIP t.p. (Richard Seaver)
Beckett, S. I can't go on, I'll go on, 1991: CIP t.p. (Richard W. Seaver)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 7, 2009 (Richard Seaver; b. Richard Woodward Seaver, Dec. 31, 1926, Watertown, Conn.; d. Tuesday [Jan. 6, 2009], Manhattan, aged 82; editor, translator, and publisher who defied censorship, societal prudishness, and conventional literary standards to bring works by rabble-rousing authors like Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, and the Marquis de Sade to American readers)
Independent online ed., Feb. 11, 2009 (Richard Seaver; b. Richard Woodward Seaver, Dec. 31, 1926; d. Jan. 5, 2009, New York; his widow and business partner, Jeanette, has confirmed that Seaver translated Story of O under the name Sabine d'Estrée)
New York times website, 19 June 2013 correction, 10 Jan. 2009 (original publication misstated death date: it was Monday [5 Jan. 2009], not Tuesday [6 Jan. 2009])