Barbara Merrihew Perkins "Perky" Gamow (May 22, 1905 - December 1975) was an American publicist, editor and translator.
[1] In 1938, she married J. R. de la Torre Bueno, scholar and editor, and divorced around 1943.
[1] She also wrote verse for some of her husband's books, including Faust; Eine Historie.
[1] Her circle of friends included E. E. Cummings and his wife Marion Morehouse, Edward Niles Hooker, Albert Guerard, Stan Brakhage, John Larson, Evelyn Hooker, Bernard Friedlander, Raymong Peckham Holden, James Broughton, Charles Norman, Eda Lord, Sybille Bedford, Garner James, and Morgan Shepard.
[1] She died in December 1975 and is buried at Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado.