Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, author portrait
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Flora Thomson-DeVeaux

Flora Thomson-DeVeaux is a translator, writer, and researcher whose translation of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis was acclaimed as "a gift to scholars" by The New York Times. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University and earned a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University. She lives in Rio de Janeiro.