David Rubin (author), Date of Birth, Date of Death

David Rubin (author)

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1924

Date of Death: 02-Feb-2008

Profession: translator, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

David George Rubin (March 27, 1924 - February 2, 2008) was an American novelist and translator.
He is most well known for his translations of the Indian novelist and essayist Munshi Premchand and the Indian poet and novelist Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. Serving in World War II as a cryptographer, Rubin returned to America to begin a life in academia.
He spent a large portion of his career at Sarah Lawrence College.
Besides his translation work, he was an accomplished novelist himself.
His first novel, The Greater Darkness, published in 1963, won the British Authors’ Club award for that year's best first novel. While he was a skillful writer, linguistics and music were his twin passions.
Rubin spoke English and French as a child, then mastered Spanish, Italian, German, Hindi-Urdu and Nepali, and dabbled in Swedish and Russian. Rubin died on February 2, 2008, from a stroke.
He was 83 years old.
A large portion of his estate was donated to charities, and his voluminous body of work is currently being digitally archived and published in e-books.