Royall Tyler (academic)

Royall Tyler
Born	1936
Occupation	Scholar, translator
Subject	Japanese literature

Royall Tyler (born 1936) is a scholar and translator of Japanese literature.

A descendant of the American playwright Royall Tyler (1757–1826), he was born in London, England, grew up in America and, during his high school years, France. He has a B.A. in Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. Between 1990 and retirement in 2000 he taught at the Australian National University in Canberra. Earlier, he taught at Ohio State, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Oslo, Norway. He lives in rural New South Wales.

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