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Yvonne Helene Kapp (; 17 April 1903 – 22 June 1999) was a British writer and political activist. Kapp also wrote under the name Yvonne Cloud.
She started work with a brief stint on the Evening Standard and moved on to the Sunday Times. She joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and visited the USSR. She worked on behalf of Jewish and Basque refugees. She was married to Edmund Kapp from 1922 to 1930. (2026). 9780230318946, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230318946Lucas, John. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. The Radical Twenties : Writing, Politics, and Culture. (pg. 121)
In 1932, Kapp wrote a novel, Nobody Asked You, under the pseudonym Yvonne Cloud. The novel was initially rejected by publishers because it dealt with the theme of lesbian. Kapp then self-published the novel, which was a commercial success.Alexander, Sally. Becoming a woman : and other essays in 19th and 20th century feminist history Virago, London, 1994. (pg. 110)
In 1938 she was co-author, with Margaret Mynatt, of British Policy and the Refugees, not published until 1968.
From 1941 to 1947 worked for the Amalgamated Engineering Union as a research officer. Subsequently, she worked for the Medical Research Council, and later as a translator, and writing her magnum opus, a life of Eleanor Marx.
She died on 22 June 1999.
Kapp also co-translated a volume of Bertold Brecht's short stories.
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