Books The Rats of Hamelin Education University of Michigan | Role Novelist Name Keith McCune | |
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Occupation Novelist, linguist, translator | ||
Alma mater University of Michigan | ||
Keith Michael McCune is a linguist, novelist, and translator. His study of Indonesian roots has been called "perhaps the most detailed and complete single work in the field of phonosemantics," He has written a novel, retelling, of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin earned praise from Michael Boyer, the official Piper Piper of Hamelin, Germany.
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Biography
McCune was born in 1955 to Frederick and Marguerite McCune. He attended college at the University of Virginia and went on to get his doctorate in linguistics at the University of Michigan, where he met Grace Osborn, who was also pursuing a doctorate in linguistics and later married him.
He and Grace joined The Evangelical Alliance Mission and spent five years in the Philippines, translating part of Genesis into Ibanag. In 1992, they moved to Russia, where they planted churches in Moscow, Makhachkala, and Krasnodar, then continued their ministry in Odessa, Ukraine. In 2009, they returned to the Philippines as Bible translation consultants.
Keith and Grace have three children, Adam, Arwen, and Eden.