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Malcolm Hacksley is an author, translator and historian. He has also recently retired as the director of the National English Literary Museum in Grahamstown, the world's premier repository and research resource for anyone interested in South African authors and their writings.

Born in 1929 in England, Don Maclennan came to South Africa in 1938 where he lived in the former Transvaal. He studied philosophy at Edinburgh, married his American-born wife Shirley, and taught at Wits before moving to Grahamstown. He spent most of his working life as a teacher and lecturer in the USA and South Africa, retiring from Rhodes University in 1994 after thirty years there. Don had published or printed some twenty volumes of poetry before his death in 2009.

The two together compiled A Ruthless Fidelity: the Collected Poems of Douglas Livingstone, a comprehensive collection of the poetry of Douglas Livingstone.