Helen Eustis has died. She was 98 years old.
Eustis’ son, Adam Fisher, announced his mother’s passing on his blog. Eustis became well-known for her Edgar Award-winning novel, The Horizontal Man. In addition to writing, she also served as a translator and worked on projects from French authors Christiane Rochefort and Georges Simenon.
Here’s more from The New York Times: “Ms. Eustis wrote for Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker, and other magazines in the 1940s. She published the short-story collection The Captains and the Kings Depart in 1949. A children’s story, The Rider on a Pale Horse, which first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1950, was later published as a book titled Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman.”