Milestones

DIED. HELEN WOLFF, 88; publisher; in Hanover, New Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto Eco.