Burton Raffel was born on 27 April 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Legend of Alfred Packer (1980). He died on 29 September 2015 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
Literary scholar and translator; his 1993 translation of Cervantes'
"Don Quixote" (spelled "Don Quijote" in Raffel's version) was released
with great fanfare.
