High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Donald Kenneth Gutierrez (born 1932) is an American writer and professor emeritus of English literature. The eldest son of Latin-American immigrants, he was born in San Francisco, California, in 1932. He taught at the University of Notre Dame and the Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico. He studied English literature at University of California, Berkeley in the early 1950s. Gutierrez left Berkeley in 1958 to pursue a career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library in New York, and wound up at book publisher Grosset & Dunlap.