Donald Keene, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Donald Keene

Japanese/American academic

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1922

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 24-Feb-2019

Profession: writer, historian, translator, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
Keene was University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years.
Soon after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, he retired from Columbia, moved to Japan permanently, and acquired citizenship under the name Kin Donarudo (??? ????, "Donald Keene" in the Japanese name order).
This was also his poetic nom de plume (??, gago) and occasional nickname, spelled in the ateji form ????.