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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate...


Biography

Name: Alfred Kazin
Birth Date: June 5, 1915
Death Date: June 5, 1998
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Alfred Kazin
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Alfred Kazin, a prominent critic of American literature and culture since the 1930s, is best known for his ground-breaking study of modern American literature, On Native Grounds (1942), his ongoing criticism of contemporary American literature, and his...


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Alfred Kazin (June 5 1915 – June 5 1998) was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. Kazin is regarded as one of "The New York Intellectuals", and like...


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Alfred Kazin's Bridge
06/12/1998: 1,186 words, approx. 4 pages
Forward 06-12-1998 Alfred Kazin's Bridge I met Alfred Kazin because of I.B. Singer. It was 1991 and I'd been working at the Forward for less than a year when Singer, the Nobel Prize-winning master of Yiddish fiction, died. The next day the phone...
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The Boston Globe
Alfred Kazin, noted author, critic,
06/06/1998: 318 words, approx. 1 pages
NEW YORK -- Alfred Kazin, a cultural historian and critic who influenced generations of thinkers through his essays, reviews and books such as "On Native Grounds," died yesterday of prostate cancer on his 83d birthday. Mr. Kazin tackled literary history, philosophy, and other...
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The New York Observer
Score-Settling and Book Chat: A Great Critic, Sustained By His City
1/16/2008: 1,088 words, approx. 4 pages
ALFRED KAZIN: A BIOGRAPHY By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35 With the death of Alfred Kazin in 1998 at the age of 83, the kind of high-end literary journalism that he’d devoted his life to in over a thousand book reviews,...
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AP News
Historians embrace Schlesinger papers
12/10/2007: 778 words, approx. 3 pages
After 19 books and thousands of articles and other writings spanning 70-plus years, the question is how many undiscovered nuggets of insight researchers may yet find in the private papers of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.Quite a few, according to the curator of manuscripts at the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Alfred Kazin
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[In the following review, Stone examines God and the American Writer, and offers a laudatory assessment of the volume as well as of Kazin's role as an "Apostle" of American letters.]
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Alfred Kazin
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A highly respected American literary critic, Kazin is best known for his essay collections The Inmost Leaf (1955), Contemporaries (1962), and On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American prose writing since the era of William Dean Howells. In the following essay, he details the rise of the Jewish-American writer.
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Alfred Kazin
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[Berman is an American educator, author, and critic. In the following review, he offers praise for A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment.]
 


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