Keeley has had a lifelong relationship with Greece, beginning with his
childhood, when his father served in the diplomatic corp. Borderlines
is his memoir of Greece, its life, culture, writers and people. It
traces his childhood through the war years, when, unable to return due
to the war, he became almost an exile in his home country. As an adult
he returns a professor, the translator and friend of the major Greek
poets, and marries a Greek woman. Borderlines documents a writer's
search for meaning in a life influenced by often conflicting cultural
values.
Edmund Keeley is a professor emeritus at Princeton University. His
most recent books include: Some Wine for Remembrance, a novel, and
Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey 1937-47.