Author: Robert Danly

Robert Lyons Danly Date of Death: 27-Apr-1997 College: Silliman (This memorial, with corrected spelling, appeared in the October 1998 Class Notes.) Robert Danly died of a brain tumor in 1997. He was professor of Japanese literature at the University of Michigan, but achieved immediate fame among translators and scholars of Japanese literature with his Yale PhD dissertation on the writings of a woman of letters in Meiji, Japan. At the time of his death, he…