Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007) was an American academician known for his work on

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the '' Pr ...

and for his English translations of

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the '' Voyages extra ...

books, especially ''

The Kip Brothers ''The Kip Brothers'' (french: Les Frères Kip, 1902) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne, one of his Voyages extraordinaires. Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued after being castaways on an island in the South Seas. They help to put down a mu ...

'' and '' The Mighty Orinoco'', which he was the first to translate into English.

Biography

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 Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

. He died at the age of 83 in

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...

Works

*''Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist'' (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on

Note: Jean-Michel Margot is the president of th
North American Jules Verne Society
and co-writer of the 2007 English translation of ''

''. *''A Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations'' (1979), Quality Books, *''A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982'' with William K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub., *''Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox'' (1986), Anma Libri, *''Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview'' (199*), self-published,

Translations

*Jules Verne, '' The Mighty Orinoco'' (french: Le Superbe Orénoque), with Arthur B. Evans, Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press, *Jules Verne, ''

The Begum's Millions ''The Begum's Fortune'' (french: Les Cinq cents millions de la Bégum, literally "the 500 millions of the begum"), also published as ''The Begum's Millions'', is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some utopian elements and other elements that seem ...

'' (french: Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum), with Arthur B. Evans and Peter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press, *Louis-Ferdinand Céline, '' Conversations with Professor Y'' (french: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) (2006), Dalkey Archive Press, *Jules Verne, ''

'' (french: Les Frères Kip), with Arthur B. Evans and Jean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press,

References

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