Theodore Rosengarten

Theodore Rosengarten
Born (1944-12-17) December 17, 1944 (age 79)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materAmherst College
Harvard University
Academic work
DisciplineHistory

Theodore Rosengarten (born December 17, 1944[1]) is an American historian.

He graduated from Amherst College in 1966 with a BA, and earned his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on Ned Cobb (1885–1973), a former Alabama tenant farmer. Subsequently, he developed his interviews with Cobb as a kind of "autobiography", All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974), which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Contemporary Affairs.[2]

About fifteen years later, All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw was adapted and produced as a one-man play starring Cleavon Little at the Lamb's Theater in New York City.[3]

  1. ^ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004 (Psychology Press, 2003: ISBN 1-85743-179-0), p. 479.
  2. ^ "National Book Awards – 1975". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
    There was a "Contemporary" or "Current" award category from 1972 to 1980.
  3. ^ "Review/Theater; Out of the Old South, the Words of a Witness", The New York Times, Frank Rich, October 23, 1989