Education
Harvard University; University of Iowa.
Harvard University; University of Iowa.
He sometimes used the pseudonym Pieralessandro Casavini. Following his graduation from Harvard University, Wainhouse traveled around Europe before settling in Paris where he worked for Maurice Girodias at Olympia Press. They divorced in 1959.
In 1960, some time after Wainhouse had returned to the United States, Gay Talese described him as In the early 1950s, Wainhouse worked for Maurice Girodias at Olympia Press in Paris, and later was an editor of the short-lived literary magazine Merlin.
Wainhouse produced the first unexpurgated English translation of the Marquis de Sade"s Justine for Olympia Press in 1953. Wainhouse was hired to provide a second translation.
In order to thwart the censors and protect the author and translator, Girodias changed the title to The Wisdom of the Lash. After his return to the United States, Wainhouse embarked on a translation of Sade"s entire oeuvre for Grove Press, including Justine, The 120 Days of Sodom, and Letters from the Bastille.
The translation was well-received, with one reviewercalling it "appropriately and agreeably prolix.".