Constance Garnett

Constance Garnett (1861-1946) was an English translator whose work introduced nineteenth-century Russian literature to the English-speaking world. Over the course of her career, she translated seventy-one volumes of Russian classics, earnin praise from critics and writers such as Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Ernest Hemingway. She was also the first translator to bring nearly the entire body of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English.