Olga Andreyeva Carlisle
Olga Andreyeva Carlisle (born 22 January 1930) is a French-born American novelist, translator, and painter. Carlisle, with her husband Henry Carlisle, is notable for translating Alexander Solzhenitsyn's work into English. Although Solzhenitsyn criticized the translations, Carlisle felt they helped bring his work to a wider audience and contributed to Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize. Biography. Carlisle was born in Paris to a Russian literary family. Her father, Vadim Andreyev, was the son of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev. Her mother, Olga Chernova-Andreyeva, was the stepdaughter of Viktor Chernov, a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders  of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Carlisle attended Bard College in New York from 1949-1953. She met her husband Henry Carlisle during this time and they moved to New York City in 1953. She now lives in San Francisco. As an artist, Carlisle's paintings have been shown in Paris and across the United States. She was mentored by Louis Schanker in the 1940s; then Earl Loran and Robert Motherwell in the 1950s.