It was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa and by Edith Grossman.

The book was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa.

Gregory Rabassa ( born 9 March 1922 ) is a literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English who currently teaches at Queens College.

* Sarah Rabassa ( 1928 – 2006 ) worked in belt factories for 20 cents an hour, in the garment center of New York, and her son loves her.

For the first U. S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in category Translation.

After serving during World War II as an OSS cryptographer and receiving a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, Rabassa enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University, where he eventually earned a doctorate.

Today it is widely read in the Spanish-speaking world but has not achieved the same fame in English-speaking countries despite an excellent translation by Gregory Rabassa.

Among the books written about Lebrón are The Ladies ' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets by Irene Vilar ( Lebrón's granddaughter ), translated by Gregory Rabassa ( formerly published as " A Message from God in the Atomic Age "), and Lolita la Prisionera by Federico Ribes Tovar.

* Pere Bertran ( substitute for Gener Rabassa ), citizen of Valencia and legal expert.

* 1986, according to one source, or 1987, according to another source: Traveling in the Family, poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with Thomas Colchie ; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa ) Random House

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.

Armstrong's home in Yonkers also received designation in both the NHL and the National Register of Historic Places, but both were withdrawn when the house was later demolished.

Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son of Barbara ( née Kamp ; 1910 – 1995 ) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka ; 1909 – 1973 ), a professional golfer.

At the time it also included present day Bronx County, which constituted the original Town of Westchester ( the center of which was around the area today known as Westchester Square, in the Bronx ) and portions of Yonkers, Eastchester, and Pelham.

By 1860, the total County population was 99, 000 and the largest city was Yonkers.

Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.

Frederick was a wealthy Dutchman who by the time of his death had amassed an enormous estate, which encompassed the entire modern City of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns.

For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront.

Bakelite, the first completely synthetic plastic, was invented in Yonkers circa 1906 by Leo Baekeland, and manufactured there until the late 1920s.

The community was incorporated as a village in the northern part of the Town of Yonkers in 1854, and as a city in 1872.

Yonkers was also the headquarters of the Waring Hat Company, at the time the nation's largest hat manufacturer.

Yonkers was mentioned in the Family Guy Episode :" Stew-Roids " in a cutaway about a Charles Paumpert Movie: Distracting Trumpet.

On October 21, 2011, filming was done for the movie Disconnect ( 2012 ) at the Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers.

Ludlow was used as a filming site for the movie " Lost In Yonkers ", starring Richard Dreyfuss.

Located in the downtown business district is the historic Murphy Theater, which can be seen in the film Lost In Yonkers, part of which was filmed in the city in the early 1990s.

In 2009 the northbound exit ramp to Oak St., Yonkers was replaced by an exit to Yonkers Ave., a block to the south.

DMX was born Earl Simmons in Baltimore, Maryland and was raised in Yonkers, New York.

* DMX joined rappers Jay-Z, Method Man, and Redman for Jay-Z's 1999 Hard Knock Life tour, during which he was arrested for charges of a stabbing at a tour stop in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was cleared of the charge ( and another assault charge during the same year in his hometown of Yonkers ).

For the duration of Shabazz's treatment, Malcolm Shabazz, then ten years old, was sent to live with Betty Shabazz at her apartment in Yonkers, New York.

Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York, the youngest son of Max Caesar and his wife Ida ( née Raphael ), Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who ran a restaurant .< ref >

That year, The Hambletonian was raced at Yonkers Raceway because of wartime gas rationing.