Shelley Laura Frisch (born January 1952) is an American literary translator from German to English.
She is best known for her translations of biographies, most notably of Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Marlene Dietrich/Leni Riefenstahl (dual biography).
[1][2] Born in New York City, Frisch now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
"[3] She taught at Bucknell University and Columbia University (where she was Executive Editor of Germanic Review), then served as Chair of the Bi-College German Department at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges until turning to translation full-time in the mid-1990s.
[5] Frisch has written and lectured widely on themes pertaining to literature, cinema, and exile.