After completing elementary school in his native village in 1925, he finished the lower-level course at the Boto?ani A.
T.
Laurian High School in 1929, followed by the superior commercial school in the same town in 1935.
Arrested in 1937 and in 1940 and send before a military court, he was acquitted.
His pen name was Dumitru Corbea until 1945, when it also became his official name.His first publication was the 1929 poetry brochure Poezii patriotice.
There followed books of poems (Razboi, 1937; Nu sunt cântare? de stele, 1940; Poezii, 1945; Hrisovul meu, 1947; Pentru inima ce arde, 1955; Poezii, 1962), a travel account (De peste mari ?i ?ari, 1959), novels (Singura cale, 1946; A?a am înva?at carte, 1955; Primejdia, 1976), autobiographical prose (Puntea, 1963; Badia, 1966; Sufletul cuvintelor 1984) and memoirs (Memorii, 1982; Marturisiri, 1987).
He was a frequent participant in the Sburatorul literary circle.
His work appeared in Cuvântul liber, Dreptatea, Via?a Româneasca, Vremea, Azi, Contemporanul, Flacara, Ia?ul literar, România Literara, Tribuna and Albina.
He wrote the history play Balce?tii (1948) and the film script for Barbu Lautaru (1954).
The volumes Anotimpuri (1956) and Ritm ?i viteza (1980) collect travel notes, conferences, articles and reportages.