Don Maclennan, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Don Maclennan

South African poet and academic

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1929

Date of Death: 09-Feb-2009

Profession: poet

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Don Maclennan

  • Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (9 December 1929 – 9 February 2009) was a South African poet, critic, playwright and English professor. He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works. Born on 9 December 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938.
  • He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University.Maclennan's academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town.
  • He taught in both South Africa and the United States.
  • He began teaching at Rhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years, although he officially retired in 1994.
  • In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade.In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry.
  • In his last decade, Maclennan had motor-neuron disease.
  • He suffered a stroke in January 2009, although his mind was not affected by it.
  • He died on 9 February 2009, in Port Elizabeth.

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