Don Maclennan

Donald Alasdair Calum Maclennan (9 December 1929 – 9 February 2009) was a South African poet, critic, playwright and English professor.

He published a number of plays, short stories, collections of poems and scholarly works.

Born on 9 December 1929, in London, England, Maclennan came to South Africa as a child in 1938. He was educated at Witwatersrand University and Edinburgh University.

Maclennan's academic career included lecturing at Wits University and the University of Cape Town. He taught in both South Africa and the United States. He began teaching at Rhodes University in 1966, teaching English there for more than 40 years,

In his final years, he self-published a number of works of poetry. 1983: Reckonings, 1988: Collecting Darkness, Justified Press, 1995: The Poetry Lesson: New Poems 1997: Solstice: Poems, , winner of South Africa's Sanlam Literary Award for 1997 2001: Notes from a Rhenish Mission, A Brief History of Madness in the Eastern Cape, with drawings by Siddis Firfield, 2003: The Dinner Party, self-published, Rhodes University GSU 2003: A Letter to William Blake, self-published, Rhodes University GSU 2003: Under Compassberg, self-published, Rhodes University GSU 2004: Excavations, Olive Schreiner and After: Essays on Southern African Literature in Honour of Guy Butler Sarah Christie, Don Maclennan, Geoffrey Hutchings, Perspectives on South African Fiction, Publisher Ad. Donker,