Ivy Kellerman Reed

Ivy Kellerman Reed (Oshkosh (Wisconsin), July 8, 1877 - La Jolla (California), February 7, 1968) was an American author in the international language Esperanto.

An accomplished linguist with four academic degrees for work ranging from Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian to half a dozen modern languages, Mrs. Reed was an ardent Esperantist. Her Practical Grammar of the International Language, first published in 1915, ran to several editions.

She was the translator with Ralph A. Lewin, of the famous Esperanto edition of Winnie-the-Pooh. She also translated Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”, the first performance of which was given at the sixth World Esperanto Congress in Washington DC in 1910.

Books

• A Complete Grammar of Esperanto

Translations

• "Winnie-la-Pu", tranlation of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• "La reĝo de la ora rivero", translation of The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
• "Kiel Plaĉas al Vi", translation of As You Like It, by William Shakespeare

External links

• "Remembering Some of Our Pioneers", in "Esperanto USA"
• Winnie-la-Pu in Esperanto
• The necessity of an international language" in "Popular Science", 1909.