Caroline Victoria Kerr was an American journalist and translator. She was born in Jefferson City, Missouri on June 24, 1866 but lived in the latter years of her life in Berlin, where she died on November 11, 1927. She is perhaps best known as the translator into English of the correspondence between Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche (for which H. L. Mencken provided an introduction) and also of Wagner's letters relating to the Bayreuth Festival. She wrote frequently on music and the visual arts, and was also the English translator of The Ninth of November by Bernhard Kellermann and several other German novels. At an earlier stage in her career she worked in musical theatre, and (as C.V. Kerr) collaborated with R. H. Burnside on the book and lyrics for the 1914 musical The Dancing Duchess.
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Costumes for The Dancing Duchess Music from The Dancing Duchess The Bayreuth Letters of Richard Wagner The Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence H.L. Mencken on Nietzsche's Letters in English A Visit in 1916 to Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche Caroline V. Kerr in the magazine The Open Court Nietzsche, France, and England Elizabeth Foerster-Nietzsche (translated by Caroline V. Kerr) in The Open Court Comment on Art Shows and Sales in Germany (Caroline V. Kerr) "Art Rooms Deluxe" Now the Fashion in Berlin (Caroline V. Kerr) A Talk with the Writer of Musical Fairy Tales (Caroline V. Kerr) Edvard Munch: Exhibition of His Work In Berlin Reveals Three Periods (Caroline V. Kerr) The Ninth of November (Bernhard Kellermann) German Women as War Workers