Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin
Kazin in 1973
Born(1915-05-05)May 5, 1915
New York City, U.S.
DiedMay 5, 1998(1998-05-05) (aged 83)
New York City, U.S.
Occupations
  • Literary critic
  • writer
  • professor
Spouse(s)Natasha Dohn (divorced)
Caroline Bookman (divorced)
Ann Birstein (1952-1982)
Judith Dunford (1983-1998)
Children2

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.[1] He wrote often about the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America.[2] 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.[3][4][5]

He was a distinguished professor of English at Stony Brook University of the State University of New York (1963-1973) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (1973-1978, 1979-1985).[6][7]

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  2. ^ Wilborn Hampton (6 June 1998). "Alfred Kazin, the Author Who Wrote of Literature and Himself, Is Dead at 83". The New York Times. p. B 9. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
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  6. ^ Obituary: Alfred Kazin The Independent. 28 June 1998
  7. ^ Talking with Alfred Kazin The Washington Post. 6 May 1984