Stanford Leonard Luce Jr (May 19, 1923 – March 26, 2007) was an American academician known for his work on Louis-Ferdinand Céline and for his English translations of Jules Verne books, especially The Kip Brothers and The Mighty Orinoco, which he was the first to translate into English.
Luce was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Agnes Foote Luce and Stanford L. Luce Sr. He received a Ph.D. in French studies from Yale University. He died at the age of 83 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jules Verne, moralist, writer, scientist (1953), first English Ph.D. dissertation on Jules Verne, Yale UniversityA Glossary of Céline's Fiction, with English Translations (1979), Quality Books, ISBN 978-0-89196-057-7A Half-century of Céline: An Annotated Bibliography, 1932-1982 with William K. Buckley (1983), Garland Pub., ISBN 978-0-8240-9191-0Céline and His Critics: Scandals and Paradox (1986), Anma Libri, ISBN 978-0-915838-59-2Celine's Pamphlets: An Overview (199*), self-published, OCLC 82916731Jules Verne, The Mighty Orinoco (French: Le Superbe Orénoque), with Arthur B. Evans, Walter James Miller (2002), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6511-2Jules Verne, The Begum's Millions (French: Les Cinq Cents Millions de la Bégum), with Arthur B. Evans and Peter Schulman (2005), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6796-3Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y (French: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) (2006), Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 978-1-56478-449-0Jules Verne, The Kip Brothers (French: Les Frères Kip), with Arthur B. Evans and Jean-Michel Margot (2007), Wesleyan University Press, ISBN 978-0-8195-6704-8