Carol Janet Brown Janeway (1 February 1944 – 3 August 2015) was a Scottish-American editor and literary translator into English.
Her father Robin Brown was a chartered accountant, while her mother was a director of the Ranfurly Library, specialising in the translation of medieval French and German lyrics.
She attended St George's School, Edinburgh and went on to study modern and medieval languages at Girton College, Cambridge.
After graduating with a first-class degree, she worked at John Farquharson, a literary agency in London.
[5] She also published Heinrich Böll, Imre Kertész, Thomas Mann, José Donoso, Ivan Klima, Yukio Mishima, Elsa Morante, Robert Musil and Patrick Süskind.