Poetic Obituaries: After serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve,

he [Henry Carlisle] studied poetry in Paris, where he met his wife. He later returned to the U.S. to complete a bachelor's and master's degree at Stanford University, where he was a student of writer Wallace Stegner.

During the 1950s he was an editor at Alfred A. Knopf and Rinehart & Co. in New York. At Knopf he helped edit the English translation of Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus." He also co-founded a publishing house, Purdy, Carlisle & Dodds, serving as editor and publisher in 1960-61 before devoting himself to writing novels.

from Los Angeles Times: Henry Carlisle dies at 84; author, translator helped bring Solzhenitsyn's work to Western audiences

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