Franklin D'Olier "F.D." Reeve (born 1928) is an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He is also the father of late actor Christopher Reeve. He was the grandson of the first American Legion national commander, Franklin D'Olier.
Reeve was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anne Conrad (née D'Olier) and Richard Henry Reeve. He was brought up outside New York City. Reeve worked in the wheat fields for a while during college ...
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Franklin D'Olier "F.D." Reeve (born 1928) is an American academic, writer, poet, Russian translator, and editor. He is also the father of late actor Christopher Reeve. He was the grandson of the first American Legion national commander, Franklin D'Olier.
Reeve was born in Philadelphia, the son of Anne Conrad (née D'Olier) and Richard Henry Reeve. He was brought up outside New York City. Reeve worked in the wheat fields for a while during college and, after graduation, was a Hudson River longshoreman for a while. He graduated from Princeton University (1950) and Columbia University (1958), and in 1961 was one of the first exchanges between the American Council of Learned Societies and the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In the late summer of 1962 he accompanied Robert Frost to Russia for his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, where Reeve served as Frost's translator. After teaching at Columbia, Reeve moved to Wesleyan University, where he taught English and Russian literature for forty years,...
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