Camille Selden Author

Camille Selden was the nom de plume of Elise Krinitz (1829–96), a German-born novelist, biographer, translator and literary critic who spent most of her life in France. She is best remembered for her role as secretary and companion to the German poet Heinrich Heine during the last seven months of his life, an experience she recounted in The Final Days of Heinrich Heine (1884).