Alfred Kazin
1915
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1998
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: literary critic, essayist, journalist, diarist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize, George Polk Award
Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic. His literary reviews appeared in The New York Times, the New York Herald-Tribune, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America. His trilogy of memoirs, A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) and New York Jew (1978), were all finalists for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.He was a distinguished professor of English at State University of New York (1963-1973) and the Graduate Center of City University of New York (1973-1978, 1979-1985). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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