Michael Gallagher (born 1930) is an author and translator of Japanese literature.
His translation of Yukio Mishima's Spring Snow was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973,[1] while his nonfiction work Laws of Heaven was the winner of the Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Award in Theology.
[2] As a Jesuit scholastic, he spent three years teaching English at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he directed several plays, including The Teahouse of the August Moon.
[citation needed] He left the Jesuit order[3] and served briefly as a paratrooper in Korea.
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