Roland Puccetti was a professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University, Canada. He served in the army during WWII, and then read philosophy at Illinois University. He then went to live in Tahiti 'as a kind of intellectual vagabond', returning for a spell at Toronto University; afterwards he took a doctorate in philosophy at the Sorbonne. There he translated the poems of Garcia Lorca. After eleven years at the American University of Beirut he took a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Singapore, and returned to Canada in 1971. Apart from The Death of the Führer, he has published Persons, a work of philosophy.
