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Austryn Wainhouse is an American translator, primarily of French works and notably of Marquis de Sade, sometimes using pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini.
As a graduate of Harvard University and prior to completing his graduate program at the University of Iowa, Austryn Wainhouse traveled around Europe before settling in Paris where he began working for Maurice Girodias at Olympia Press, and later as an editor of Merlin. His first wife Mary, also known as Muffy or Muffie, also worked for Girodias, and later came to be living with him.
He produced the first unexpurgated English translation of Justine for Olympia Press in 1953. Two years later, Wainhouse returned to the United States. Wainhouse later revised his translation of Justine for Olympia Press in 1953.
In 1955, the controversial, erotic French novel, Histoire d'O or The Story of O by Pauline Reage, won the prestigious Prix des Deux Magots award for unconventional books. Wainhouse was hired to provide a second translation. In order to thwart the censors and protect the author and translator, Maurice Girodias, the publisher, changed the title to The Wisdom of the Lash.
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