Elisabeth Kaiser was a German translator who notably translated the works of Henry James, William Faulkner, and poet e e cummings (1894-1962).

Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894-1962, was an American poet, author, and playwright. He was born on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University with his B.A. in 1915 and his M.A. in 1916. During World War I, Cummings enlisted in a French ambulance service corps. He was detained for a time because of his anti-war sentiment, an experience which influenced his first book The Enormous Room (1922). After the war, Cummings established himself as an avant-garde poet with his poetry collections Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and XLI Poems (1925). He spent the 1920's and 30's traveling throughout Europe, the Soviet Union, Northern Africa and Mexico. In 1932, after separating from his second wife, Cummings met photographer and fashion model Marion Morehouse. They lived together in a common-law marriage until Cummings' death. Over the course of his career, Cummings wrote twelve volumes of poetry, much of which experimented with syntax, punctuation, capitalization, and spacing. He died on September 3, 1962.