Yvonne Kapp

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Kapp from the cover of Time Will Tell

Yvonne Helene Kapp (née Mayer) (1903–1999), was a British writer and political activist. Kapp also wrote under the name Yvonne Cloud.

Biography

Kapp was born on 17 April 1903 in Norwood, London, daughter of Max Alfred Mayer (1871-1948).

She started work with a brief stint on the Evening Standard and moved on to the Sunday Times. She joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and visited the USSR. She worked on behalf of Jewish and Basque refugees. She was married to Edmund Kapp form 1922-30.

In 1938 she was co-author, with other communists, of British Policy and the Refugees, not published until 1968.

From 1941 to 1947 worked for the Amalgamated Engineering Union as a research officer. Subsequently she worked for the Medical Research Council, and later as a translator, and writing her magnum opus, a life of Eleanor Marx.

She died on 22 June 1999.

Bibliography

• British Policy and the Refugees 1968 (with others)
• Elenor Marx 2 vols 1972-6
• Time Will Tell, 2003, Verso (posthumous)

Kapp also co-translated a volume of Bertold Brecht's short stories.

• 1983. Short Stories: 1921–1946. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Trans. Yvonne Kapp, Hugh Rorrison and Antony Tatlow. London and New York: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-52890-1.

External links

• Obit. Independent