HELEN WEAVER is a writer, translator, and astrologer who has rendered some fifty books from the French. Her translation of the Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1977. She is general editor and co-author of The Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology and author of The Daisy Sutra: Conversations with my Dog. Her new book The Awakener: A Memoir of Kerouac and the Fifties will be published November 1, 2009 by City Lights Books.Weaver lives in Woodstock, New York, where she is at work on Translation of Light, a book about her scientist father, Warren Weaver,and their dialogue about astrology. She can be reached at helenweaver@earthlink.net. Her website is www.helenweaver.com