Born on October 10, 1892, in Rossville, Illinois.
Died on January 15, 1950 (aged 57), in Lambertville, New Jersey.
Samuel Putnam was an American translator and scholar of Romance languages. He is also noteworthy as the author of Paris Was Our Mistress, a memoir on writers and artists associated with the American ex-patriate community in Paris in the 1920s and early 1930s. Putnam's most famous work is his 1949 English translation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. It is the first version of the work in what would today be considered contemporary English; although there is still use of archaic language, it is more restricted than in earlier English versions of the work.
