A Walker in the City

A Walker in the City
1951 cover
AuthorAlfred Kazin
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublisherHarcourt
Publication date
1951
Publication placeUnited States
Pages192
ISBN9780156941761

A Walker in the City is the 1951 memoir by New York intellectual, writer and literary critic, Alfred Kazin. Kazin writes about his childhood in the then-Jewish neighborhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn. It was followed by the memoirs, Starting Out in the Thirties (1965) and New York Jew (1978).