Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007 ) is well known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...

 and his English translations of Jules Verne

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...

 books, especially The Kip Brothers

The Kip Brothers

The Kip Brothers is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne.-Publication history:*2007, USA, Wesleyan University Press, 514 pp., 60 illus., ISBN 0819567043, First English translation-External links:* available at...

 which he was the first to translate into English 105 years after the novel was written.

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

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...

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Works

• Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on Jules Verne
  Jules Verne
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
  
  , Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• A Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations (1979), Quality Books, ISBN 978-0-891-96057-7
• A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982 with William K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub., ISBN 978-0-824-09191-0
• Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox (1986), Anma Libri, ISBN 978-0-915-83859-2
• Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview (199*), self-published,

Translations

• Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco
  The Mighty Orinoco
  The Mighty Orinoco is a novel by French writer Jules Verne , first published in 1898 as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It tells the story of young Jeanne's journey up the Orinoco River in Venezuela with her protector, Sergeant Martial, in order to find her father, Colonel de Kermor, who...
  
  , with Arthur B. Evans, Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56511-2
• Jules Verne, The Begum's Millions
  The Begum's Millions
  The Begum's Fortune , also published as The Begum's Millions, is an 1879 novel by Jules Verne, with some elements which could be described as utopian and others which seem clearly dystopian. It is remarkable as the first published book in which Verne was cautionary and to some degree pessimistic...
  
  , with Arthur B. Evans and Peter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56796-3
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y (2006), Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 978-1-564-78449-0
• Jules Verne, The Kip Brothers
  The Kip Brothers
  The Kip Brothers is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne.-Publication history:*2007, USA, Wesleyan University Press, 514 pp., 60 illus., ISBN 0819567043, First English translation-External links:* available at...
  
  , with Arthur B. Evans and Jean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-819-56704-8

External links

• Stanford L. Luce obituary