Robert Danly, April 27, 1997
ANN ARBOR—Award-winning writer and translator Robert Lyons Danly, University of Michigan professor of Japanese language and culture, died of a brain tumor April 27. He was 50. Danly, who had taught Japanese literature at the U-M since 1980, achieved immediate fame among translators and scholars when his doctoral dissertation—a biography of writer Higuchi Ichiyo that included translations of her short stories—received the American National Book Award for translation in 1982. At the U-M, Danly directed…