Born on 05 February 1912 in Deglėnai, Pasvalys district. Died 25 06 2014 in Vilnius.
In 1933 he studied Lithuanian Studies at Vytautas Magnus University, attended the theatre seminar of Balys Sruoga. In 1940 graduated from Vilnius University. From 1939 he was a teacher in Vilnius. From 1945 he taught at the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education), lecturing on the history of Lithuanian literature. Worked at the State Publishing House of Fiction (now "Vaga"). In 1953 he was arrested and exiled to Pavolgis. He returned to Lithuania in 1954. From 1971 he worked at the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, retiring in 1981.