Born on 24 November 1910 in Igliauka, Marijampolė parish.
Died on 04 07 1993 in Kaunas. Buried in Vilnius.
In 1928 he began studying medicine at the University of Lithuania, and in 1937 graduated from the Faculty of Humanities. In 1937-1939 he taught Lithuanian language and literature at Šiauliai Gymnasium, and later at schools in Kybartai, Marijampolė, Kėdainiai and Kaunas. Participated in literary gatherings and their publications "Pjūvis", "Linija". He published his first short story in "Gaisy". In 1945, he published his first textbook for the post-war years, "Literature for School". Editor of the Fiction Publishing House from 1946-1947. Sentenced to 5 years in 1947 for reading and distributing the Lithuanian partisan press. Released from the Yakutia camp in 1950, he worked as a surveyor's assistant, a clerk at a fish company, a construction warehouse worker, a teacher at an evening school in 1955-1962, a librarian in 1964-1968, and a warehouse worker in 1964-1970, constantly under surveillance by Soviet security. Without writing a statement of repentance or a work of devotion, he was not admitted to public literary life until the years of the Revival. Author of several literary studies on writers ("The Face of Vaižgantas" , "Strazdelis koordinatės"). He translated works by Maxim Gorky and Ivan Turgenev from Russian, German poems by Lions Foichtwanger and Liudvikas Reza, Polish poetry by Antanas Baranauskas, Antanas Klementas, Karolina Praniauskaitė, and Maironis' poem "Z nad Biruty" ("From Birutė Hill").