Iosif Keller was born on December 30, 1903 in Odessa, Odessa uyezd, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Odessa Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for
The Stone Flower (1946). He died on February 16, 1977 in Perm, Perm oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Perm krai, Russia].