Alfred Kazin Born: 5-Jun-1915 Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY Died: 5-Jun-1998 Location of death: Manhattan, NY Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Critic, Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: On Native Grounds Father: Charles Kazin (housepainter) Mother: Gita Fagelman Sister: Pearl Wife: Natasha (m. 1938) Wife: Caroline Bookman (m. 1947, div. 1950, one son) Son: Michael Kazin Wife: Ann Judith Birstein (novelist and critic, m. 26-Jun-1952, one daughter) Daughter: Cathrael Kazin (b. 1955) Wife: Judith Dunford (m. 1980s, one stepson) Son: Jonathan Dunford (stepson)
High School: Franklin K. Lane High School, Brooklyn, NY University: BA, City College of New York University: MA, Columbia University (1935) Professor: American Studies, Amherst College (1955-58) Professor: English, SUNY Stony Brook (1963-)
The New Republic Literary Editor (1942-43) Fortune Associate Editor (1943-44) Guggenheim Fellowship 1940 Russian Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR New York: A Documentary Film (14-Nov-1999) · Himself
Author of books:
On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose (1942, criticism) A Walker in the City (1951) Starting Out in the Thirties (1965, memoir) Bright Book of Life: American Novelists & Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer (1973, criticism) New York Jew (1978, memoir) An American Procession: The Major American Writers from 1830-1930 -- The Crucial Century (1984, criticism) A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature (1988, criticism) A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin (1996, journal) God and the American Writer (1997, criticism)
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