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...

was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He is the son of literary critic Alfred Kazin, and step-son of structural engineer Mario Salvadori. He graduated from...

Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009 and is the author of a biography of the critic Alfred Kazin. Cook teaches American literature at the University of Missouri–St. Louis...

It won the second annual National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1951. Alfred Kazin thought it the wisest and most balanced single piece of writing on Melville...

Times Book Review commenting on the Oppenheimer matter, literary critic Alfred Kazin claimed Strauss "pronounced his own name 'Straws' to make himself sound...

book as a vast improvement over the Lower East Side.: 15  In addition, Alfred Kazin wrote about 1920s-era Brownsville in his memoir A Walker in the City...

1951 memoir by New York intellectual, writer and literary critic, Alfred Kazin. Kazin writes about his childhood in the then-Jewish neighborhood of Brownsville...

A Prayer for Owen Meany has been both widely praised and criticized. Alfred Kazin described John Wheelwright as a "conscious and unapologetic wimp" and...

the wilderness of Puritan denial, the road that Dreiser faced alone. Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as "stronger than all the others of his time, and...

sacrifice—the binding of Isaac and crucifixion of Jesus—described by Alfred Kazin as the literal death of God. Afterwards the inmates celebrate Rosh Hashanah...

including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Alfred Kazin, hired specifically for their writing abilities. The magazine became...

a typical mid-depression strike in bionomic terms." In 1958, critic Alfred Kazin referred to In Dubious Battle and The Grapes of Wrath as "his most powerful...

the Stanford University Creative Writing Program. It was awarded to Alfred Kazin (1996) and George Steiner (1998). The Trust awards scholarships and fellowships...

economists Walt Rostow and Wassily Leontief; writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin among others. The Seminar was formally incorporated on April 20, 1950...

which had accepted the essential insights of Darwin, Marx, and Freud." Alfred Kazin identified his use of parody: "He was a derisive critic and parodist...

to move out of his fantasy niche despite the onset of World War II. Alfred Kazin said that "Cabell and Hitler did not inhabit the same universe". The...

(18 November 2013). ""A Gift of Books" by Edward Albee, Joseph Heller, Alfred Kazin, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and others — December 1965"....

Arendt, Hannah; Kazin, Alfred (February 2005). Mahrdt, Helgard (ed.). "The correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Alfred Kazin". Samtiden. No. 1....

Highsmith Chester Himes Marilyn Gayle Hoff Langston Hughes Ted Hughes Alfred Kazin X. J. Kennedy Jeanne Jaffe Tamara Jenkins Miranda July Ulysses Kay Porochista...

that the proper response to life is one of resigned acceptance." For Alfred Kazin, "Vonnegut deprecates any attempt to see tragedy, that day, in Dresden...

metaphysical questions. In a review for the Chicago Tribune, critic Alfred Kazin stated: "There are passages here of physical rapture in the presence...

the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Alfred Kazin (1915-1998), writer Sam Levenson (1911-1980), writer / television host/...

U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, poet Allen Ginsberg, novelists Alfred Kazin and Brendan Gill, director Martin Scorsese, journalist Pete Hamill, former...

all her adult novels would follow. Desperate Characters came next with Alfred Kazin calling it a "brilliant performance" and "quite devastating" while Lionel...

"vicious emptiness," Robert Ornstein dubbed her "criminally immoral," Alfred Kazin judged her to be "vulgar and inhuman," and Leslie Fiedler regarded her...

Galbraith (1908–2006), economist C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), historian Alfred Kazin (1915–1998), literary critic and writer Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970)...

the arena of ideas were literary critics such as Lionel Trilling and Alfred Kazin, economists such as Alvin Hansen, John Kenneth Galbraith, James Tobin...

Catcher in the Rye and his Glass family stories. In 1961, the critic Alfred Kazin explained that Salinger's choice of teenagers as a subject matter was...

literally singing Brown's praises. As a biographer of Brown put it, "If, as Alfred Kazin suggests, without John Brown there would have been no Civil War, we would...

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