Stanford Leonard Luce Jr | |
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Born |
Boston, Massachusetts |
May 19, 1923
Died | March 26, 2007 Cincinnati, Ohio |
(aged 83)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, OH |
Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007) was an American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books, especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco, which he was the first to translate into English.
Luce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr. He received a Ph.D. in French studies from Yale University. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio.