George Burnham Ives
American lawyer, writer and translator
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| Intro | American lawyer, writer and translator | |||
| A.K.A. | G. B. Ives Geo. B. Ives George B. Ives | |||
| A.K.A. | G. B. Ives Geo. B. Ives George B. Ives | |||
| Places | United States of America | |||
| was | Translator Writer Lawyer | |||
| Work field | Law Literature | |||
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| Birth | 18 October 1856, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA | |||
| Death | 1930Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA (aged 73 years) | |||
| Star sign | Libra | |||
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Biography
George Burnham Ives (1856-1930) was an American bibliographer, editor, and translator.
Early life
He was a member of Salem's Pickering family. Ives was a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
Career
He became the Assistant District Attorney of Essex County. On May 12, 1890, Ives pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement and forgery, having been caught misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from various trust funds as well as squandering his wife's inheritance. He was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in Charlestown Prison and was disbarred.
While in prison, Ives developed a second career as a translator. After his release, he became a distinguished and prolific literary translator, translating works by Balzac, Daudet, Gautier, Hugo, Maupassant, Mérimée, Sand and others into English. He edited an edition of the essays of Montaigne (the infamous "fig leaf" edition). In later life, Ives produced the first comprehensive bibliography of the works of Oliver Wendell Holmes and worked as an editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
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1921 Text, Type and Style: A Compendium of Atlantic Usage