Edmund Leroy Keeley, author, translator, educator, critic, and administrator, was born in Damascus, Syria, on February 5, 1928. When he was three, his family moved to Canada for five years. He lived in Greece from ages 8 to 11, receiving his primary education in Thessaloniki. After attending high school and college in the U.S., Keeley was a Fulbright Schol
Edmund Keeley
Articles by Edmund Keeley
Wednesday December 7
The Language Barrier
About a year after my father was transferred from the American Consulate in Montreal to the Consulate in Salonika, Greece, my brothers and I began to speak to our parents in the third person. This wasn’t something we discussed or planned, and we didn’t consciously imitate each other. It just happened, as though it were