Don Maclennan

Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (December 9, 1929 – February 9, 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 December 9, 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938. He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University.[1]

Maclennan's academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town.[2] He taught in both South Africa and the United States.[3] He began teaching at Rhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years,[2] although he officially retired in 1994. In later years, he continued to teach at the university, giving weekly seminars for another decade.[4]

In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry.[4] 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 February 9, 2009, in Port Elizabeth.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Maclennan, Donald (Alasdair Calum)" article, Student Encyclopedia of African Literature, by Douglas Killam, Alicia L. Kerfoot, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 ISBN 978-0-313-33580-8, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2009
  2. ^ a b c Loewe, Mike, "Poet and playwright Maclennan dies at 79", article, February 12, 2009, Independent Online website of the Independent newspaper, article "was originally published on page 9 of Cape Argus on February 12, 2009", according to the Web page, retrieved February 13, 2009
  3. ^ "Prof Don A C MacLennan" at Rhodes University website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  4. ^ a b c "RIP Don Maclennan: 1929 – 2009. February 10th, 2009 by Ben – Editor", article at Book SA News website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  5. ^ "Reckonings" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  6. ^ "Letters: New Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  7. ^ "The Poetry Lesson: New Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  8. ^ "Solstice: Poems" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  9. ^ "Of Women and Some Men" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  10. ^ "Notes from a Rhenish Mission" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  11. ^ "Bateleur Poets" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  12. ^ "The Road to Kromdraai" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  13. ^ "A Ruthless Fidelity: Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  14. ^ "Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009
  15. ^ "Perspectives on South African Fiction" at BookFinder.com website, retrieved February 13, 2009