Richard Woodward Seaver, publisher, editor, and translator, died January 6 at his home in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack. Born December 31, 1926, in Watertown, Connecticut, Seaver attended the University of North Carolina and taught high school before moving to Paris, the Washington Post reports. In the 1950s and 1960s, while an editor at Grove Press, Seaver helped fight censorship statutes, bringing to publication controversial titles, such as William F. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch; Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; and the erotic novel, The Story of O, translated from the French by Seaver under an alias. While at Viking, Seaver helped publish Octavio Paz, and later, with his wife, founded Arcade Publishing, to attend to lesser-known writers. Over his career, Seaver translated over fifty books from French, including works by Samuel Beckett, the Marquis de Sade, and Andre Breton. He was eighty-two.