Donald M. Frame (1911 in Manhattan – March 8, 1991 in Alexandria, Virginia), a scholar of French Renaissance literature, was Moore Professor Emeritus of French at Columbia University, where he worked for half a century.
Frame married Katherine Mailler Wygant, who died in 1972; they had two sons.
On April 19, 1968, he gave a Phi Beta Kappa Lecture at Vassar College entitled "Montaigne on the Absurdity and Dignity of Man"; the title epitomizes his interpretation of the 16th-century author to whom he devoted so much of his life.
A translation by Frame of Rabelais's complete works was published six months after his death.
[1] Harold Bloom calls Frame the best modern Montaigne scholar.