Don Kleine, scholar of modern literature and member of the faculty from 1967 until his retirement in 2007, died on March 31, apparently of pneumonia, after having been hospitalized with a lung disorder; he was 82 years old.
One of Hawthorne’s great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author’s experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841.