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Full Name: Donald Keene
Biography:
(1922-2019) Translator. Donald Keene was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Tokyo, Japan. The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University is named in his honor.
Author's Timeline:
1922 Kings County
Donald Keene was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18, 1922. 
1938 New York County
Dr. Keene began studies at Columbia University in 1938 and spent much of his career there. 
2008 (Unknown) County
Chronicles Of My Life An American In The Heart Of Japan
(Pub: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231144407 / 978-0231144407)
Memoir. 
1984 (Unknown) County
Dawn To The West
(Pub: Holt, Rinehart & Winston ISBN: 0030628148 / 978-0030628146)
Nonfiction. 
2010 (Unknown) County
So Lovely A Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
(Pub: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231151462 / 978-0231151467)
Nonfiction. 
1988 (Unknown) County
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
(Pub: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231067364 / 978-0231067362)
Nonfiction. 
2019 (Unknown) County
Donald Keene died in Tokyo, Japan, on February 24, 2019. 
2002 (Unknown) County
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912
(Pub: Columbia University Press ISBN: 023112340X / 978-0231123402)
Nonfiction. 
1995 (Unknown) County
Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries
(Pub: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN: 0805020551 / 978-0805020557)
Nonfiction. 
1959 (Unknown) County
Living Japan
(Pub: Doubleday and Company ISBN: )
Nonfiction. 
1991 (Unknown) County
Appreciations of Japanese Culture
(Pub: Kodansha Amer Inc. ISBN: 4770009569 / 978-4770009562)
Nonfiction. 
1994 (Unknown) County
On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures
(Pub: Kodansha Amer Inc. ISBN: 1568360065 / 978-1568360065)
Nonfiction. 
2003 (Unknown) County
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan
(Pub: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231130561 / 978-0231130561)
Nonfiction. 

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